On the issue gardening call today (notes here: https://gist.github.com/1401833 ), the issue of multiple issue trackers came up. Here are some of the notes.
> We do not want to force users to use JIRA, because they will simply stop > logging issues It's not difficult to create an apache jira account that you can use to post bugs, is it? Personally, I've never considered it a hurdle to have accounts open all over source repos on the web - apache, eclipse, github, webkit, mozilla, etc. > So, our maintainers will take on the responsibility of mirroring GitHub > issues on JIRA. This includes comments. "This includes comments" seems totally unreasonable. More reasonable would be leaving GitHub issue trackers open, and when a new issue is posted, do the following: - opening a corresponding tracker on Jira - post a link to that tracker in the GitHub issue, and then close the issue People will quickly learn that it's less work to open an issue at Jira than at GitHub. -- Patrick Mueller http://muellerware.org
