On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:44, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> There seems to be consensus. >> >> (1) We must somehow preserve the old bugzilla ids. > > We can preserve them in a new BZ instance. We can preserve them if we > use JIRA (OOO-1234, for example). > >> >> (2) There is no clear preference on Bugzilla over JIRA. > > That is kind of what I'm seeing, too. > > If we can wait a week, then I might suggest we wait to get more people > subscribed onto this list. Then we can run a poll to see where > consensus lies.
I agree, if we have a choice. The discussion on Infra reveals the person who did the last migration at Oracle ... > > If anybody has some technical reasons for choosing one over the other, > then that would be great. It would help direct us towards a specific > choice. I did query Infra. Mark Thomas may have a preference. I forwarded his questions back into the ooo-dev list. Then there were further responses The thread is titled: Moving OOo Bugzilla Database into ASF Infrastructure. It is not cross linked. I'll keep people posted back on the thread here. > >> I think that we need to ask the infrastructure team what they think about >> the situation. > > When I asked this 1.5 years ago, Infra said "choose either one. > doesn't matter to us." I believe we simply need to find a way to reach > a choice, then ask them to set it up. It is possible that needed customization might serve to pull us towards JIRA, but I am just guessing because Mark Thomas is a release manager on Apache Tomcat and JIRA sits on that. Regards, Dave
