Hi OCCT Team,
the sudden closing of dev.opencascade.org's public resources that used to be the well-known way of communication for the community all these years and moving to another well-known resources, on the one hand, looks natural, on the other, is a bit unexpected when you see Mantis not functioning as a bugtracker anymore.
In the old days the release of the new version took place once a year, so, maybe, not all of the users/customers have noticed the change yet and it might be a surprise when they notice that some of their issues are now lost (archived).
There is a good tradition when some old works of art are transferred to the public domain and made available for the users after some period of time agreed with the authors or publishers. To say, from the point of view of the historical interest, it is now impossible to find any OCCT version earlier than 6.4, though it is mentioned that it had been open source long before.
So, looking at the dozens of the test cases supplied along with OCCT that are marked as SKIPPED because of the missed data raises a question: maybe OCCT have something similar in their workflow and are going to release some new portion of the test data to the public as well?
Do you have any procedure or agreement like this?
It would be harder now when Mantis is shut down, but when it was active, users could have reviewed their issues easily for that matter if you had contacted them, because after 2 or 5 years most of the data becomes irrelevant. Maybe if you contacted them directly, they would be more informed about the changes and also agreed to participate.
It feels like it is actually a common interest both for the OCCT and the community (both public and private) to have as much test data available as possible - in this way, more stable and reliable patches could be provided before making the pull requests. Good thing is, with the AI it is now possible to remove or replace the sensitive parts in there.
Best regards.