Rails (and family) on Lighthouse

Posted by rick April 15, 2008 @ 07:21 PM

Lighthouse “version 2” deployed yesterday, so I’m officially opening the Rails Lighthouse tracker up for business. Other spinoff projects such as Prototype and Capistrano have already made the switch. As David has mentioned, this means the current trac instance is deprecated. It will continue to stay in use for now until everyone has transitioned to Lighthouse.

We’re still figuring out the new workflow with git, Github, and Lighthouse. I’ll be working with the Logical Awesome folks to improve the Lighthouse/Github relationship. I’m also working with Tim Pope (author of the awesome git-trac tool) and others in #rails-contrib on bringing the same development tools to the new git infrastructure. Tim also wrote some best practices for contributing to Rails from git.

Posted in Launches, Tools | 18 comments

Comments

  1. daragh on 16 Apr 03:16:

    I’m afraid the Prototype link is borked.

  2. Chris on 16 Apr 03:25:

    This is awesome! The new Lighthouse looks great and I’m already enjoying using it on my projects.

  3. leethal on 16 Apr 08:52:

    Jolly good!

    The sooner the guidelines are down, the better. Personally I’m working on a quite large patch to rails. Should I sumbit a ticket to lighthouse, with a diff? A ticket with a zipped git repos attached to preserve commit history? A pull request on github?

  4. Luke Redpath on 16 Apr 11:33:

    I have a few questions after playing around:

    1) Will all of the existing tickets be moved over to Lighthouse?

    2) Having things such as [PATCH] in the ticket subject seems a little bit messy; wouldn’t Lighthouse handle this better with a combination of tagging/ticket types/ticket bins?

  5. Matt Baron on 16 Apr 12:12:

    This is great. I can’t wait to see what enhancements are in the pipe for github/lighthouse integration. It’s nice to have these systems under closer control of the community.

  6. Dampfreiniger on 16 Apr 13:36:

    nice, but what’s the main advantages from git/lighthouse comparing to svn/trac? is there some blog post or thread about this subject?

    thanks!

  7. rick on 16 Apr 19:32:

    Leethal: Tickets with pull urls or git patches should be fine. Normal diff/svn patches too for those on windows of course.

    Luke: We’re not moving tickets, but Shay Arnett wrote trachouse for merb. I’ve set up some public ticket bins that look for a tag of ‘patch’ or ‘doc’, so prefixes in the title aren’t needed anymore.

  8. Alan on 16 Apr 19:55:

    Ok but I think this is going a little too far on the shiny-cute end!

    The first thing your eyes catch is not text but image, that is why we like to put/have icons on our GUI. So here the most important information seems to be everyone’s photo. Why not add what the committer is doing right now? Hey, this is not Facebook! Put that image as an overlay or only on the user’s profile page.

  9. Wes G on 17 Apr 03:28:

    Would someone update the trac wiki with this information and a link to the new Lighthouse tracker?

  10. Shawn Oster on 18 Apr 00:31:

    I’m also curious about the switch to Lighthouse. Was it only for the git integration or were there other reasons?

    I haven’t been a 100% impressed with Lighthouse over Trac. While having someone else host the tracker is nice the fact that there isn’t a free version of Lighthouse that supports public projects is a detractor. Plus some of the UI elements seem a little more fluff than usability focused. Then again I’m no Lighthouse expert so perhaps a blog post comparing Trac to Lighthouse would be useful.

  11. Geschenkideen on 18 Apr 23:58:

    thanks for this nice tool.

  12. Qertoip on 20 Apr 09:23:

    The promised http://dev.rubyonrails.org/archives/rails_edge.zip file is 0-length.

    Have a look: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/archives/

    Could you please fix this?

  13. itsnotvalid on 20 Apr 19:45:

    I am having some troubles with visiting http://rubyonrails.org as it gets to some unknown parking sites, for a very short period of time. You guys may want to look into this carefully.

  14. Felix on 20 Apr 21:29:

    It seems that rubyonrails.org has been hijacked (or transferred outside David’s hand). Whois information reveals as following:

    Domain ID:D104247687-LROR Domain Name:RUBYONRAILS.ORG Created On:19-Apr-2004 22:40:29 UTC Last Updated On:20-Apr-2008 18:08:51 UTC Expiration Date:19-Apr-2009 22:40:29 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD Registrant ID:5B0454A82930DA57 Registrant Name:Next Angle Registrant Organization:Next Angle Registrant Street1:Frederikssundsvej 34, 4. C Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:K?benhavn NV Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code:2400 Registrant Country:DK Registrant Phone:+45.18776779327 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:domainadmin@buydomains.dk

  15. Felix on 20 Apr 21:29:

    It seems that rubyonrails.org has been hijacked (or transferred outside David’s hand). Whois information reveals as following:

    Domain ID:D104247687-LROR Domain Name:RUBYONRAILS.ORG Created On:19-Apr-2004 22:40:29 UTC Last Updated On:20-Apr-2008 18:08:51 UTC Expiration Date:19-Apr-2009 22:40:29 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD Registrant ID:5B0454A82930DA57 Registrant Name:Next Angle Registrant Organization:Next Angle Registrant Street1:Frederikssundsvej 34, 4. C Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:K?benhavn NV Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code:2400 Registrant Country:DK Registrant Phone:+45.18776779327 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:domainadmin@buydomains.dk

  16. Eric on 20 Apr 22:05:

    David will have to try and get it back:

    http://www.internic.net/problem_reports/p11.html

  17. John Topley on 21 Apr 11:04:

    Relax. DHH used to be known as nextangle.

  18. Thong Kuah on 21 Apr 11:57:

    Yeah, for a couple of hours, the domain registration expired. good that it is renewed!