On 01/06/2011, at 8:21 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Potential migration of Maven's JIRA from > jira.codehaus.org to issues.apache.org > > Just wondering now that codehaus and apache are on nearly similar > versions (4.1.2 and 4.2.4 respectively) what would be involved. > > Ben@codehaus can give us a 4.1.2 dump of the entire codehaus jira and > we'd just have to cull out the non-maven projects (easier way than any > others is what Ben thinks as most of the projects are Maven based > projects) > > On the Infra side, would this be the easiest way to pull the issues in?
I'd been meaning to mention... As it happens, Archiva & Continuum are moving their issues over already, so I have already asked Ben if he can include the Maven projects in the same test dump. That doesn't imply any commitment - they can be deleted before import - but it means we can have a look at how it would turn out. > > What do people think in general? > > +1's: > * We'd be fully on Apache controlled hardware Some other advantages: - it's what some new users expect (I've had some small complaints over time about not finding it / needing another account on a different JIRA) - the subversion commits tab would work again - takes the load of Ben & Codehaus :) > > -1's: > * Since a lot of the issues end up being actually issues in a lower > layer (most of which if not ASF hosted live/lived @ codehaus) or an > upper layer (i.e. one of the mojo plugins) we'd loose the ability to > move those issues to the correct project and instead we'd have to > create a new tracking issue on the root cause project's jira I don't see that that's a big issue. > * What we have works, if it ain't broke don't fix it That's a pretty powerful one :) > > Once we have enough comments/feedback (I'm willing to give a week or > two), I'll put the options to the Maven PMC who will ultimately EITHER > make a decision OR delegate making a decision to all the Maven > committers. > > -Stephen -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
