#3086 closed task (fixed)

trac.osgeo.org links to common categories are unknown and content is out of date or misleading

Reported by: jive Owned by: strk
Priority: normal Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Trac Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by jive)

The links from http://trac.osgeo.org to common categories are broken, and much of the content is outdated.

  1. Recommend provide instructions for how to request an OSGeo User ID and report an issue.
  1. List active projects, and move inactive things to an archive page.
  1. Review of trac instances:
  • CS-Map - 10 years ago
  • FDO - 6 years ago
  • Fusion - 12 years ago
  • GDAL - clear banner project has moved
  • GeoNetwork - last modified 10 years ago, could use a clear banner
  • GeoPrisma - last modified 12 years ago
  • Geoinformatica - moved, clear message at top of page
  • GEOS - moved, good clear banner
  • GeoTIFF - moved, good clear message
  • Generic Geometry Library - moved, good clear message
  • GRASS GIS - 17 months ago, unclear if this is used / active
  • Mapbender - 6 years ago, good clear moved to GitHub message
  • MapGuide - 9 months ago, active issue tracker
  • MapServer - 3 years ago, consider archiving
  • MetaCRS - 6 years ago
  • OSGeo General and SAC - 20 moths ago, active issue tracker
  • OSGeo Live - 17 months ago, active
  • OSGeo4W - 5 weeks ago, active
  • OSSIM - 8 years ago
  • PostGIS - 2 months ago, active issue tracker, wiki dated
  • Proj4js - 10 years ago
  • Proj4J - 7 years ago
  • Ubuntu GIS - 7 years ago
  • Enterprise Linux GIS - 9 years ago
  1. https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo broken components links
  • OSGeo Website tickets - broken link
  • OSGeo SAC tickets - broken link
  • not sure why there is a link to "OSGeo-Live related"

Change History (5)

comment:1 by jive, 12 months ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by jive, 12 months ago

Feedback:

OSGeo General and SAC

A user not familiar with our structure would not know what "SAC" stands for...

OSGeo General Inquiry

OSGeo System Administration

I am not sure I know what kind of issues are reported to "OSGeo General"?

comment:3 by robe, 12 months ago

For #4, the OSGeo Website tickets looks okay to me.

The OSGeo SAC tickets link I've fixed and relabeled.

comment:4 by neteler, 12 months ago

GRASS GIS:

comment:5 by robe, 11 months ago

Milestone: UnplannedSysadmin Contract 2024-I
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

I've removed these so going to close this out. Feel free to open if you want

    CS-Map - 10 years ago
    FDO - 6 years ago #I saw one from a year or so ago so left this one for now
    Fusion - 12 years ago
    GDAL - clear banner project has moved
    GeoNetwork - last modified 10 years ago, could use a clear banner
    GeoPrisma - last modified 12 years ago
    Geoinformatica - moved, clear message at top of page
    GEOS - moved, good clear banner
    GeoTIFF - moved, good clear message
    Generic Geometry Library - moved, good clear message
    Mapbender - 6 years ago, good clear moved to GitHub message
    MapServer - 3 years ago, consider archiving
    MetaCRS - 6 years ago
    Proj4js - 10 years ago
    Proj4J - 7 years ago
    Ubuntu GIS - 7 years ago
    Enterprise Linux GIS - 9 years ago

For future reference, the file to change is on osgeo7-tracsvn -- /var/www/trac/html/index.html

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