Talking about our own dogfood, it probably makes a better argument Nexus (used in the ASF) vs Archiva (Apache project)
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Henri Yandell <hyand...@gmail.com> wrote: > I question the labeling of Cobertura as our dogfood and Clover as not > our dogfood. > > Which is 'our dogfood', the GPL product or the proprietary product > built on top of permissively licensed Open Source (not that I know if > Clover is like this; but I've heard the same argument against JIRA)? > > Do we support the "Open Source movement", whatever that might be > described as today, or our users? > > Hen > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> [I am replying here to message (below) posted on committ...@a.o on >> 12/20/2009 03:17 by Michael McCandless] >> >> As an open source community, I feel we should eat our own open source >> philosophy dog food and use open source software whenever possible. I've >> used Cobertura for a while now on various Commons projects and at work and >> its reports are just as useful and pretty as Clover. I also believe that >> each project community is free to do what it feels serves it best. >> >> At this time, though, I wonder what Clover offer that is so much better than >> Cobertura to merit put aside what I feel is an important philosophical >> point. >> >> What we do at Apache for this type of issue is very important IMO when we >> think about the image and expertise that we project. We are a technical >> community and people look to our choices as implicit guidance if not >> endorsement. When we pick a commercial product like Clover over an open >> source solution (like Cobertura), I feel we are telling the world that there >> is no one in the open source space that could serve our need and that we had >> to turn to a commercial product. That fact that we have a free license is >> besides the point. >> >> My 2c, >> Gary >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> On 12/20/2009 03:17, Michael McCandless wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Atlassian has generously donated a site license to Apache for Clover >> 2.6, to test code coverage for any source code under org.apache. >> >> We've checked the license in here: >> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/donated-licenses/clover/2.6.x/ >> >> In Atlassian's words: The license is available to anyone working on >> the org.apache.* be it in IDEA/Eclipse/Ant/Maven locally, or on a >> central build server. Since the license will only instrument and >> report coverage on org.apache packages, please mention that it is fine >> to commit this license to each project if it makes running builds >> easier. ie just check out the project and run with Clover, without the >> need for the extra step of locating and installing the clover license. >> >> Uwe Schindler has worked with Atlassian to upgrade Lucene's nightly >> build to use Clover 2.6 and the resulting report is great, eg: >> >> http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Lucene-trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/clover-report >> >> Feel free to fold into your build, use Clover during development, etc. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
