On 12/07/2011 03:54 AM, Robin Burchell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Without entering into the "which is better" debate, Confluence can be used >> for free for open source projects > > I'm not trying to be an alarmist, I do know that, and that is good. > Props to Atlassian for offering that. I still don't like it. Just > because it's free for use *now* doesn't mean that it will be > indefinitely free for use. Trusting essential tooling to a company's > goodwill isn't what I'd call a smart approach. Companies can go under, > be sold, or change their minds very easily.
I know that a lot of open source projects will not use any non-FOSS (KDE for instance), but my understanding was that Qt uses JIRA because although proprietary, it's the best in its class, which makes it very useful. Crowd is also being used, and is also proprietary. It seems to me that the Qt project prefers software that helps get work done efficiently over software that is necessarily FOSS (it's not alone there; tons of projects, including Apache, do the same thing). In that vein I think Confluence is a good choice, since it is both a best-in-class wiki and would integrate well with the bug tracker and SSO solution. As for being a bit hasty to suggest this, my understanding is that the choice of MediaWiki in the first place was overly hasty, as it was chosen simply because it seemed the easiest to get set up very fast, not because of any intrinsic merits. So I don't particularly think the fact that someone is starting to help make it work better is a reason to ignore the alternatives; if anything, it means the alternatives should be discussed earlier, before they do a lot of work in that regard that could end up being discarded. Anyways, I guess we'll know more about DevNet soon, which may make all of this moot. FWIW, licenses to the Atlassian products come with access to the source code, which might somewhat help ease fears about the company failing. Alexandra: sorry if I misremembered your objections to MediaWiki, I truly thought you said you didn't like it. :-) --Jeff _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
