Re: Google Code shutting down

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Trevor Daniels wrote Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:15 PM
>
>> I'm sure we'll find some undesirable features of Allura when we get
> down to the details, but that's what the next few weeks will tell us.
>
> I've pretty well completed my assessment of Allura at SourceForge, and
> find the facilities available pretty well match our needs, in fact
> they are surprisingly similar to those at GoogleCode.  There are some
> differences but none which we can't live with.  So far so good.
>
> However, there is a show-stopper concerning the integrity of the
> Issues discussions recorded in the tracker.  Each item in the
> discussion has an owner, and this is set to Anonymous during the
> import, since the original owner is not recognised as a SourceForge
> account-holder.  This in itself is not a serious problem, as the
> correct owner is recorded in the text of the message.  However, owners
> of discussion messages are always permitted to edit them, irrespective
> of the permission settings, and I can find no way of preventing this.
> That means Anonymous, which is any not-logged-in user, i.e. anyone,
> will be able to edit, accidently or maliciously, any and all
> discussion entries in our Issues DB.
>
> I've reported this to the SourceForge maintainers:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/10317/

So one probably will want to have some fallback owner here.  The issue
would be somewhat softened if we can convince Savannah to offer Allura,
but not all current issue owners are in the LilyPond project member set
on Savannah either.

-- 
David Kastrup