On Wed, 5 May 2021, 7:02 am Nate Graham, <n...@kde.org> wrote: > On 5/4/21 12:57 PM, Alexander Semke wrote: > > Jira can do all of this, except of the tight integration with GitLab out > of > > the box maybe, and even more. I'm heavily using Jira at work on the > daily base > > and it's a very reliable and feature-rich tool for project management and > > issue tracking. Many open source communities are using Jira, also Qt. > > > > If we try to have an open mind and are also ok with closed source > software > > that is offering its service for open source projects, should we > consider Jira > > as well? > > > > https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request > > I don't think we can consider that kind of thing, or else we would be > using GitLab EE (which is offered for free to FOSS projects) rather than > GitLab CE. >
Nate is correct here, as a matter of policy we only run software that is FOSS. > FWIW I used Jira a lot professionally before my KDE days and am not a > big fan of it. My experience with it was that it was slow, confusing, > buggy, and ate my text a lot. Maybe it's better now, I dunno. > > Nate > Cheers, Ben >
