I notice some additional information at http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira, which includes:
"Many ASF projects are currently using JIRA, and other projects are encouraged to migrate" see also the response to *Q: Why would people prefer JIRA?* one feature I see listed there is: Interaction via email: reply to a change notification email, and your reply will appear as a comment in the issue. that would certainly be useful, as one now has to remember *not* to respond to a BZ notification directly On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> > >> > >
