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

[Konstantin Pavlov]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 08:52:43PM +0100, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> 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.

Yes, my plan is to provide http 302 redirects from trac to code.v.o in a
month or so, once we are sure there are no big issues with migrated
tickets.

The trac database will still be saved in a backup, so we could peek into
it even when trac is fully decommissioned.

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