On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Sorin Sbarnea <metatrac...@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> wrote: > > I am asking this because I do think that a better bug tracker would be of > great benefit to Python community and we shouldn’t be victim of > not-invented-here syndrome and still be able to recognize and use a better > tool even if it’s not made in Python.
My version of the main reason why open source projects use open source software is that it is critical for any open source project not to fall down into the user only syndrome, where software is not developed anymore, because its community consists of pure users. People, who know how to use, but can't learn how things work, modify them and share this knowledge between each other in a manner that is challenging and fun for others to try. > I do have extensive experience with JIRA, from user, administrator and > developer level. "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." ) Why not Bugzilla, Trac, Redmine? I am sure there are a lot of people who are experienced with these. Personally, I am not convinced that JIRA is superior to those. And also the bus factor of 1 is not compelling. > If you think that the community would be interested about something like > this, I would like to invest a signifiant amount of my time on doing this. Well, if you're really a good JIRA hacker and would like to change JIRA outlook to be more positive, it is real if you will be able to help people of Qt Project to enable one-click OpenID and Google account logins, which seems impossible without buying vendor service - https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTJIRA-74 I understand that you want to help Python community - not a Qt one, but there is one project - PySide, which is a QT Project and which is used by many Python IDEs (and hence very beneficial for Python community), and lowering contribution barrier for is useful for those who use Python for GUI works. > Let me know what you think about it and if you have links to existing > discussions please share them. I have a good experience with both open source and proprietary tracker solutions. Better tracking practices definitely help development, but that may not depend on tracker as much as on your ability to convince rather conservative collective mind about a better practice. _______________________________________________ Tracker-discuss mailing list Tracker-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss
