RE: is scarab at its end of lifetime ?

Our development group and much of our company uses Scarab for software
change management.  We have 361 active users with > 3.2M rows of data in
the Scarab tables.  We're on our third year of Scarab/Subversion use and
integration. 

My main concern with continued use of Scarab is lack of support.
Understandably, this is open source.  We've received no response to
several inquiries on problems we've encountered using Scarab that we
have been unable to resolve.  We've had to create cron jobs to resolve
(hack) the issues (one of which is a Java exception) on the fly.
Likewise, we've attempted to make contributions with no response to our
inquiries.  

Otherwise, it meets our needs.  Though I have been thinking about moving
to JIRA for the support aspect.

My two cents.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge Uriarte [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: is scarab at its end of lifetime ?

Hi; though I'm not currently relying on Scarab directly in my company, I
still consider it a solid option for integrating issue management, and
it's definitively part of our toolbox with our clients.

It's quite stable, even though it's not the easiest one to install
(neither the worst, by far!).
And its only problem might be kind of a lack of sex-appeal given its
stable nature. No breaking new features, no buzztechnology, no need for
it if you ask me :)

The quest for 2.0 was (IMHO) doomed because it was an exclusively
technological effort, not driven by functional needs, and it's hard to
recruit resources if you don't have an itch to scratch :)

So, trying you to make a long story short; there's a (small) community
that appreciates the product. Efforts invested in adding features must
be (as you do Hussayn) in a conscious way, respecting/improving the
adaptability Scarab has always valued.

And you can always count on we the old guard to help you at least in
finding the way to add the features that way :)

Hugs,

_
Jorge Uriarte Aretxaga
http://www.gailen.es
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeuriarte



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Hussayn Dabbous
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I wonder, if scarab is still something needed in this world...
> Is there a user comunity ?
>
> I am currently working on a few enhancements which i need for a life 
> project. I originally planned to feedback everything into Scarab.
>
> But if it is not of any use any more, i maybe just create some fixes, 
> which work for me and let scarab as it is and fade out development ?
>
> any opinions ?
> hussayn
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