Re: [PROPOSAL] Switch to Jira

On 07/09/2010 11:12 AM, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 09:37 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>    
>> Am 07.07.10 15:38, schrieb Richard Frovarp:
>>      
>>> Florent brought up the question of switch from Bugzilla to Jira. We
>>> discussed this about three years ago and the feeling was positive
>>> towards that decision, but the move was never made. I think we held off
>>> so we could focus efforts on release. Now would seem to be a good time
>>> to switch.
>>>
>>> What do others think?
>>>        
>> +0
>>
>> I understand that Jira provides more features and other benefits.
>>
>> OTOH I don't really want to endorse the move from open source to closed
>> source tools within the ASF infrastructure. I have to admit that I don't
>> have such a good feeling about the ASF accepting the donation of
>> closed-source tools, since it obviously removes the pressure of
>> improving the open source tools that we used to use and reduces their
>> visibilty, market share etc. But I guess I have to read the
>> corresponding discussions and votes if I can find them.
>>      
> I agree to your point Andreas. One thing is clear that jira has some
> very nice things but personally I am using redmine now which is open
> source and I like it even better then jira. However I am not sure
> whether it makes sense to ask for redmine.
>
> I am +0
>
> salu2
>    

Asking for redmine probably won't do us any good. Infra is pretty 
overloaded as it is.


Richard