[rt-users] RT questions (status of RT2)

Jesse jesse at fsck.com
Thu Feb 1 15:27:51 EST 2001


On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:10:35AM +0100, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> This is currently the major obstacle I have to adopting RT1.
> Ummm... how stable is RT2? :-) 

I use it daily. and it's actually feeling pretty solid these days.
There's a bit of robustifaction that needs to happen to the mail
gateway to make _absolutely sure_ we don't lose any mail.  

> I've looked at the buglist,
> and I don't see any real showstoppers.  However, a lot of the
> bugs are not not really clear to someone (like me) who isn't
> current on the development. 

The closest things to showstoppers right now are the fact that
an administrator who isn't careful can still break referential integrity
on some database objects.   Big impediments to day-to-day use
include the fact that merge hasn't been implemented yet,  and that
RT still does all its time handling in GMT.  Ivan's been hacking on
an RT1 import tool, but it's not quite there yet. (though this isn't an
issue for you)  

> Is there an update to be made to
> the "status.html" page? 
Yep. I've been a bit busy with other things. Sorry about that.

> Any idea on when RT2 will be feature complete? 

That day gets closer and closer. I'm hoping to get alpha 4 out the door
next week.  That should have a fully functional admin cli and fixes
for the nastiest of the bugs I know about right now (the ref. integrity 
stuff)

>  Will there be a non-"feature complete" release which
> will have bugfixes?

The goal of each milestone release is to be more stable and complete 
than the last.  Generally, the point releases between each milestone
have improved stability too.

> In short (and now I'm not asking Jesse to commit to anything,
> but only for the opinions of people who test/use RT2), if I also
> save all incoming and outgoing mail to a seperate maildir, what
> are the risks I'm taking in using RT2 in a *big* production
> environment that desperately needs a request tracker?

If you're the daring sort, you probably want to save copies of all
incoming and outgoing mail _and_ turn on SQL logging on your mysql 
instance. If you do that, you should be pretty ok.


> BTW, slight feature request (for RT3 ;-)): I think it would be
> nice, when you're consulting things in one queue, to have the
> default selection of "New ticket" set to the queue you're on.
 
Getting a bunch of the web ui's selectors, etc to have 'sticky' preferences
within a session shouldn't actually be too hard :)  if you're really interested,
I can give you pointers and will take a patch ;)

Hope this answers some of your questions. 

        Jesse

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