[asterisk-users] Asterisk community services - Old Mantis instance to be shutdown on Aug 28th, 2012

[Vladimir Mikhelson]

On 8/28/2012 4:11 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On 12-08-28 10:25 AM, Matthew Jordan wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Vladimir Mikhelson" <vlad at mikhelson.com>
>>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>> Cc: asteriskteam at digium.com
>>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:33:27 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk community services - Old
>>> Mantis instance to be shutdown on Aug 28th, 2012
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to leave the Mantis on permanently?
>>>
>>> It allows to productively search and work with issues recorded in it.
>>> Search, convenient straight forward layout, patch download URLs,
>>> everything just works there.
>>>
>>> JIRA maybe is convenient for the management and developers.  I just
>>> guess, as somebody must have loved it so it was chosen as a Mantis
>>> replacement.  But for an ordinary user (in my opinion) it is
>>> cumbersome
>>> and unfriendly.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, but no.  Infrastructure costs time, money, and effort by folks
>> who have to keep the system running.  You may not always see the
>> problems -
>> but they do happen, and Mantis certainly complicates all sorts of other
>> pieces of the infrastructure puzzle.
>>
>> URLs that previously resolved to Mantis issues should automatically
>> resolve
>> to the JIRA issue that replaced them.  I'm sorry you don't care for
>> JIRA,
>> but its the system we use now and its highly unlikely that we will
>> migrate
>> away from it anytime soon.
>>
> I can understand Digium not wanting to spend time, money and effort,
> which is understandable.
>
> Thinking out loud, if the open source community still see value in the
> old mantis data, could we not hand it over for somebody else to
> manage?  I'm sure we could find somebody to donate the bandwidth.
>

Paul,

What kind of resources are we talking about?  How big is the database? 
What is the approximate bandwidth consumption?

Thank you,
Vladimir