On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 16:05 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Forrest uses Jira. Jira is much better than bugzilla. Jeff works for the company that produces it. There is also a migration tool between bugzilla and Jira. It's commercial, but free for open source use.
I would be +1 to migrate to Jira.
-1 for Jira.
Sorry Stefano, but I don't believe we should be using proprietary software
for critical infrastructure.
- We would have no access to the source code
- We would have to rely on a single organisation for development and support
- We have no guarantee that the license would be in perpetuity (I can't
find a copy of the license on their site).
For open source bts, Atlassian recommend bugzilla.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/ faq.html#is_jira_open_source
I know bugzilla's interface can be tiresome, but it _does_ do the job, it's tested and deployed worldwide, and it is free/libre.
hey, you sound like RMS, scary ;-)
all right, all right. don't want to fight but just remember that Forrest uses Jira (which is also installed already on cocoondev.org) and that i believe Jeff would patch a bug report much faster than you could do with the bugzilla source code in hand (having perl sourcecode or java binary code, IMO, it's the same thing)
but I agree on your third point: locking could be applied (even if a very bad move for them).
but don't impose bugzilla as the center of our work organization, it's just too bad. :-(
-- Stefano.
