Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>> Does this smell "Bitkeeper fiasco" to anyone else than me? >> No. > > that's just not true. lots of people have voiced concerns over using > closed-sourced stuff originally designed for enterprise-level Java users > for an application domain where Python has several widely used agile > alternatives to chose from. > > if they hadn't done so, there probably wouldn't have been an evaluation > period in the first place.
Sure. But what's the similarity to the fiasco part of the BitKeeper fiasco? There's no silly non-compete agreement. The client is a generic web browser so everyone can play. One of the charges of the committee was to make sure that the data could be extracted easily (something the semi-open Sourceforge didn't do so well) such that moving would be reasonable should the JIRA folks decided to take their ball away. I didn't mean to trivialize concerns about about JIRA in particular or proprietary systems in general, but using poor analogies as a rhetorical club seems ill-advised. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list