On 20.10.2025 18:14, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> We currently have 2 issue trackers (trac and forgejo),
> 
> Previous discussion:
> "[RFC] Issue tracker" and "trac ticket statistics"
> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org/thread/HS46O6K62MHRHJDJC45XLRMR64RE5IB7/#LMXCTJDF5SIUSX43X7YZ4347U5YHWW33
> 
> I think there are 2 questions, the first is,
> which issue tracker do we want to use going forward?
> And the 2nd question is, about migrating tickets.
> 
> First lets establish which tracker we want to use going forward.
> It seems there where 2 options suggested.
> 
> "T", Trac, with a potential future switch to redmine (similar to trac)
> 
> "F", Forgejo


F for Forgejo, simply because maintaining two applications, specially 
one as old and "brittle" as trac is a pain.

trac currently needs subtantially more server resources than Forgejo, 
while having roughly similar amounts of requests.
It also frequently goes down if the traffic goes too hard, and needs a 
reboot to come back.

I also personally feel like we don't really need/use any of the more 
advanced features in trac. At least I have never looked at votes before, 
or heard anyone talk about them before Forgejo came up.
The only clear advantage it has is the much more refined search, but 
that's something other people have noticed to be lacking in Forgejo as 
well, so there is ongoing effort to improve it.


Also, redmine is not something one can just switch to.
It looks similar, but is an entirely seaprate thing.
There is also no clear way to migrate to it, so it'd be another 
disruptive switch.
There is https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/redminemigrate
but it explicitly says the migration from Trac is obsolete and does not 
work.