[vlc-devel] [Announcement] Trac bug tracker migrated to GitLab

[Marvin Scholz]

On 19 Mar 2021, at 20:47, Lyndon Brown wrote:

> Awesome :)
>
> I noticed that some comments contain fixed links to trac though.
>
> Example:
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25391#note_246239
>

Yeah this is the case in some comments, we thought a bit
too late about this and there are some tricky interactions
when blindly replacing this with the new bug tracker URL.

But for now Trac is anyway still around and after that, it
should be trivial to keep a redirect for the ticket URLs to
the GitLab bug tracker.

>
> On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 20:22 +0100, Marvin Scholz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> as already announced a while ago, we now migrated the
>> Trac bug tracker to the VideoLAN GitLab instance on
>> code.videolan.org.
>>
>> If you already have a GitLab account with the same
>> email as on Trac, tickets should have been migrated
>> with you as author.
>>
>> If you did not have a GitLab account before, an
>> account matching the username of your account on
>> Trac was created on GitLab for you and you can
>> login to it by resetting the password on
>> https://code.videolan.org/users/password/new
>> (It will be sent to the email address your Trac
>> account used)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> The new bug tracker for VLC can now be found on:
>>
>> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/
>>
>> Of course especially regarding the labels nothing
>> is set in stone and there is room for improvement,
>> this is just a nearly 1:1 migration from what we
>> had on Trac.
>>
>> For the time being, Trac is still running but
>> read-only and there is a banner above every ticket
>> linking to the ticket on GitLab.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marvin Scholz
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