Noel, +1 on your reply..
Mvgr, Martin On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 07:15, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > How has bugzilla been an impediment? > > A lot of people have complained about the performance. Many people have > said that they do not like working with it, and don't. No one has wanted to > invest the effort in bugzilla. > > Be that as it may, using Jira is a choice. > > > More importantly, how does moving to proprietary software over currently > > well functioning OSS software benefit the community? > > Others have given some examples of why, but basically Jira benefits us by > providing a vastly better platform for managing our software projects. > Which, interestingly enough, provides the core for Jira. > > Note that Atlassian is not some corporate giant. They are tiny company > making a living by building a fine product on top of Open Source components. > >From where I sit, that makes them an ASF success story. > > > So we're going to put in all this effort to migrate the commons to > > proprietary software instead of improving the current OSS offerings > > No, there is relatively little effort that we need to put into migration. > Atlassian has put in an effort, but it isn't much for us on our end. So > that means that we can invest our effort in our own OSS offerings. Which is > kind of the point. :-) > > I certainly encourage anyone who wants to join scarab.tigris.org to do so. > > > Couldn't the same amount of effort be spent improving our current system? > > In the past two years, no one has wanted to do so. It would be a weak > statement to say that none of the people involved in dealing with bugzilla > have expressed any interest in maintaining it. > > > Part of the fun of developing code at Apache is knowing that we're helping > > other people without asking for anything in return. > > Then perhaps you might smile in delight at the achievement that a handful of > people are able to support their families with a good idea, good > implementation, and active support built on top of that work. Which is just > what the ASF license is designed to allow. > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mvgr, Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
