I'd like to reopen this question,since I haven't seen a resolution. I'm hearing some proposing Bugzilla, because of familiarity and ease of migration.
I'm also hearing some say that JIRA is superior. I'm not really persuaded by either argument. I wonder if we could briefly drill down into this a bit more. 1) I read that the OOo bugzilla has been customized. Can anyone explain the nature of the customizations? 2) In what sense if JIRA better? IMHO all defect tracking systems suck. But I'm open to the possibility that some suck less. 3) On migration, would it be reasonable to attempt a sandboxed trial migration of Bugzilla to JIRA, and let skeptics poke at it for a while, to see if, for example, IDs are preserved, etc.? Would that be much work? The easiest way to convince people that JIRA is possible and reasonable might be to actually do it. 4) What are the downsides of Bugzilla? If it is a supported option at Apache, wouldn't that be the obvious choice? I think we'd need to make a good case for why an alternative would be better. What are, say, the top 3 things that JIRA would do better than Bugzilla? -Rob On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> On 16.06.2011 16:45, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >>> Hi *, >>> >>> (to moderators: I guess the list software used checks on Sender, not >>> on From - so if you need to review this message, please add the sender >>> address to a "allowed posters" lists for both dev and notifications >>> please) >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Marcus Lange<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I would prefer Bugzilla, too. We have already migrated recently to this, so >>>> transition would be much easier to bring it into Apache. And because of >>>> OOo's project size I would also like to see a new instance. >>> >>> Not because of project size, but also for the sake of preserving the >>> issue-numbers that are spread all over the place, last but not least >>> in the code itself. >>> >>> So whatever you choose, make sure that there is a way to get form >>> #i1234# to the actual bug that corresponds to the id. >> >> Yes, keeping issue ids is the most important thing. Which bug tracker we use >> would be a second order priority for me. > > There seems to be consensus. > > (1) We must somehow preserve the old bugzilla ids. > > (2) There is no clear preference on Bugzilla over JIRA. > > I think that we need to ask the infrastructure team what they think about the > situation. > > Regards, > Dave
