I'm -1 on Jira.
What are your issues with Jira? This discussion is the first I've heard of it. (googling...) Oh, it isn't open source, even if they allow open source projects to use it for free! Is that the issue?
I know that I like dealing with as few infrastructure tools as possible and I'm already used to Bugzilla. Switching to svn was easy and the next time I set up source control for myself I'll use svn instead of cvs. But I would not be able to make a similar switch to Jira because it is not free to individuals.
On the other hand, if somebody at Apache is taking care of setting it all up and using it is as easy as what we are doing now with Bugzilla, it would not make that much difference.
On the third hand, I would not want to find out about some difficulty in customizing the setup for our needs after making the switch. Bugzilla is a known quantity.
On the fourth hand, I'm just a committer, not a member of the PMC. I would guess that I don't have a vote. I'll end up using whatever the project makes available, and I'm sure it will work fine.
-- sidney
