Folks Due to the recent upgrade of HttpClient to a full project in Bugzilla JIRA no longer has a definitive edge over Bugzilla. Nonetheless, JIRA still a newer and more flexible system which can potentially make our life and that of our users simpler.
http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-74 The only fundamental gripe with JIRA that some folks have is that it is not open-source. I do not think we should try to be holier than the Pope himself, since too many projects have already defected to JIRA Religious reasons aside, I also foresee technical difficulties too. Currently (at least with Bugzilla 2.14.2) there appears no way to make a project completely read-only. Submission of new reports can be disabled, but one can still modify the existing bug reports. There is a few options: (1) Ask folks to resubmit their comments in JIRA when important / ignore modifications made in Bugzilla when unimportant. (2) Tweak Bugzilla a little to prevent mutation of existing reports. Note, supposedly Apache Bugzilla is already a fork. So, the real trouble here is to convince the Infrastructure folks to apply a patch, and more importantly reapply it every time Bugzilla is upgraded. Now, the REAL REAL trouble is that it almost took a full scale nuclear conflict between the Evil Russian Empire (me) and the Freedom Alliance (the Infrastructure team) to implement what turned out to be a fairly minor change to get HttpClient promoted to a project status. From now on, I am deeply skeptical about everything that has to do with Bugzilla maintenance. Besides, I may not survive yet another squabble with Noel. (3) Wait until other Jakarta Commons project migrate first. Long may be the wait, though So, what's the popular opinion on that? Non-committers are highly encouraged to voice their opinion too Evil Comrade Oleg *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. *************************************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
