(moving to infrastructure@, where this is more relevant. Thread at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106146999500001&r=1&w=2)
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Jeff, > > Jeff Turner wrote: ... > > I volunteer :) Hacking JIRA is my day job. > > I think it would be helpful to have a discussion and consensus on which > issue tracking tool should be adopted, and why, but it ought to be ASF-wide. > I don't believe that it makes sense for us to use multiple tools in the same > space. Consensus across the entire ASF? I suppose it is possible, but demonstrably not with Bugzilla, and IMHO not with Scarab. Consensus amongst the poor suckers responsible for long-term maintenance would be more viable and more interesting. For a start, has anyone investigated whether Scarab scales to handle the quantity of issues Bugzilla is currently handling? JIRA has a Bugzilla importer, so that's one of the things I'd like to investigate with a pilot install. > Personally, I think that one criteria (but only one) ought to be having > people eager and available to maintain whatever tool is adopted. Yes. It's no good me or any one person promising to be here in 5 years time. There has to be a pool of users sufficiently interested and empowered to be able to become administrators. I think the 'empowered' part is where Bugzilla falls down. I don't know about Scarab, but JIRA administration is mostly done through the web interface. Project-specific admins can be specified, who are allowed to create new versions/components for their project. --Jeff > For JIRA, we have you and Henri Yandell volunteering to help admin the > tool. For bugzilla, we've really got no one who seems devoted to it > (or they just stay quiet). Both Scarab and bugzilla apparently have > made great strides elsewhere, but their ASF installations have > languished, and haven't been anyone's priority to maintain. Both are > scheduled to be updated as soon as a major operating system update to > nagoya is completed, but that's been postponed. > > --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
