On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:17 AM, mehdi houshmand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Glenn, > > Apart from the linking between bugs and svn commits, what do we gain? > Migrating to JIRA is presumably non-trivial[1], so is it really worth it? > I did suggest this after using JIRA with PDFBox because it's nicer to use > and faster, but I'm not sure those reasons mitigate the cost of migration. > But then, I didn't spend much time looking into the capabilities that JIRA > offers. > the main reason I wish to convert is because bugzilla is little used and little maintained in ASF at this point from what i can tell; most projects are using JIRA and few continue to use BZ; i just noticed that BCEL has recently requested @Infra to perform the conversion to JIRA [1] (though there appear to be a few bumps in that path) [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4298 given Clay's efforts to modernizer our site doc infrastructure, it seems appropriate to look at other tool upgrades as well; as for cost, the main work will be on @Infra to perform the conversion, and for us as users to make the mental change; i haven't personally used JIRA much, but it seems a more modern, feature-full interface as well as having better svn integration features; > > Mehdi > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheBugzillaToJiraMigration > > > On 14 April 2012 15:45, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Fop and XMLGraphicsCommons appear to be two of the few Apache products > > still using Bugzilla instead of JIRA. I propose we migrate to JIRA. Any > > objection? > > > > Regards, > > Glenn > > >
