Another advantage it's the possibility to customize your dashboard(s) with a lot of portlets. You can define what you want to see : the issues open, your votes, ... It's really useful for developers like us.
Cheers. Arnaud (Maven's team) On 4/26/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/25/06, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I know Jelly are on Jira already, and Struts have just moved over to > > > Jira. Wondering what the view is nowadays on Commons moving to Jira? > > > > > I am -1 on moving to jira. > > Reason for mentioning Struts above was that I remembered that one of > the -ve votes a few years ago on moving to Jira was from Martin and I > thought some other Struts guys; thus the email to see if the consensus > had moved. > > I'm +1 in favour of Jira, but not religious about it. > > > I dont understand why we - the open source developers and our users - > > should help testing a commercial application. > > This is a common reason to not use Jira. From an ASF point of view, > it's a bit weak I think. The ASF encourages companies to build > commercial products on top of open-source software so using things > like Jira is kind-of using our own dog-food. > > If Atlassin just offered Apache a licence, then it would be the kind > of thing that we wouldnt accept. However if they offer it to everyone, > then it's much the same kind of thing we push for at the JCP - > open-source projects shouldn't be locked out due to lack of money. > > > Also I dont understand whats the great benefit for us - compared to > > bugzilla - that we act as a marketing plattform for jira. > > Major advantages of Jira: > > * Project based administration - rather than central administration. > * Visualization is much better - release management really shouldn't > be maintaining a list of issues in wiki, it should be handled in the > issue tracker. Well, you think it should after doing things in Jira > anyway :) > * Search sharing. > > There are probably other ones for other people, but for me I think it > improves the speed in which we can identify open issues, which > versions they're for etc. I'm getting better with Bugzilla now, but it > still feel clunky. > > > Sorry if I completely missed the point. Do not hesitate to correct me. > > Nope, you got the point. Just me wondering if consensus had moved to > Jira now that Struts (well Martin was the one I was IMing) are Jira > fans. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
