Mantis Activity

[JWPlatt]

Greetings,

There are projects and users on Mantis, but it's getting virtually no use. So I figure it's one of these:

- Inactive development
- Mantis difficulties; usability
- Getting the word out
- Real life is a PITA

Please let me know how you are doing with Mantis and whether something needs to get done to do something better or encourage use.

Thanks.

[rarified]

RL can be a PITA and a timesink.

Havn't had time to work much on foundry integration so I'm idle right now...
Of course when the first source becomes available I suspect things will pick up.

[JWPlatt]

List of possibilities fixed.

[Dot]

Mantis is useful -- it's just that I haven't focused on testing ages just recently. Sorry.

[Mac_Fife]

There are projects and users on Mantis, but it's getting virtually no use.

Everything's a bit quiet just now: wiki, forums too...

[Whilyam]

I'm thinking getting the word out is an issue. We have a lot of developers here, but not a lot of users.

[ametist]

Yes, it seems like we're living in a 'limbo' these days, noone knows when and where, the activity is decreasing everywhere.
That said, i think Mantis will be more used when we get OSMO/MOOSE up and running. GoMa will sure be using it for reports on tested ages. But then again, it's really up to every age-creator to sign up, and for 'shard-runners' to use Mantis to look for tested ages.
Word would be spred

[realXCV]

I don't really need to use Mantis right now because:
1. Sources of the-game-with-many-names are not yet released.
2. I'm not yet in the full debugging process of the project I'm working on. (Which isn't related to Uru anyway...)

[Mac_Fife]

With the increased emphasis on JIRA, and the lack of activity on Mantis, is there much point in keeping Mantis going?
Is it worth keeping this as a "simpler" tool for smaller projects or where folks are just more comfortable with it, or would it be better to say "No, we have one tool for issue tracking"?

I also noted that all the timestamps, with the exception of JW's fairly recent "date test" were showing 17:00, Dec 31, 1969 (I'm guessing that's MST-speak for 00:00, Jan 1, 1970 UTC), possibly the result of a database reload?

[rarified]

Keep in mind there is a (untried as of yet) mechanism for transferring Mantis data to JIRA if we choose to consolidate.

_R