Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Ströder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fredrik you need tools to help you track the bugs and their status, but Fredrik you can handle issue registration, discussion, and most Fredrik maintenance stuff using good old mail just fine. Which is something SourceForge has yet to learn. At work we

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Ströder
Paul Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is something SourceForge has yet to learn. At work we use a system called RT (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/). While it's not perfect, it does allow submissions and responses via email. That feature alone puts it miles ahead of SF in my

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Paul Rubin
Michael Ströder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: E-mail spam is an issue but the python.org infrastructure already has to do spam filtering for mailing lists. Or does it simply resend all mail? The problem is that the lists (or at least the pypy list) got mirrored somewhere without having the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Magnus Lycka
Fredrik Lundh wrote: you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. I tried to figure out where that list is, so I could have a look at the archives, but I didn't find it in the (for me) obvious places. Could someone please provide a link to the archives for this mailing list, or aren't there

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Georg Brandl
Magnus Lycka wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. I tried to figure out where that list is, so I could have a look at the archives, but I didn't find it in the (for me) obvious places. Could someone please provide a link to the archives for this

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread skip
Michael E-mail spam is an issue but the python.org infrastructure Michael already has to do spam filtering for mailing lists. Or does it Michael simply resend all mail? Email sent to most mailing lists hosted on mail.python.org are passed through a SpamBayes instance before being

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Paul Boddie
Magnus Lycka wrote: It seems to me that an obvious advantage with either Roundup or Trac, is that if the Python project used it, the Python project would have a significant impact on how this product developed. Even if the Jira people seem eager to please us, I'm pretty convinced that it

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On 9 Oct 2006 06:36:30 -0700, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Meanwhile, despite the python.org codebase presumably running various commercial sites, ... Nothing should have given you this impression! python.org's formatting is handled through a custom script called Pyramid,

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Paul Boddie
A.M. Kuchling wrote: On 9 Oct 2006 06:36:30 -0700, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Meanwhile, despite the python.org codebase presumably running various commercial sites, ... Nothing should have given you this impression! python.org's formatting is handled through a custom

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, as someone who merely browses python-dev, perhaps I shouldn't care how the core developers track their bugs: if they struggle to manage that information in future, why should I care? Well, the reason I should care is related to the reason why the

Good sign for Roundup as Python bug tracker (was: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?)

2006-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fredrik Lundh wrote: python.org could still need a few more roundup volunteers, but it's not like nobody's prepared to contribute manhours. don't underestimate the community. So, how many have offered to help? Is this information available in some

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Ben Finney wrote: Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for Mr. Holden... it's not a matter of not respecting you. It is in his nature to babble in this way. Sometimes it's even funny! Oh my. You have *seriously* misjudged this group if you think that comment will give you any

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Terry Reedy
Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tracker. I was claiming that, if such a group was ever formed, it was better spent on bug triage rather than keeping their keys ready all day long to quick-fix any server breakage in minutes. This could be made into an

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Giovanni Bajo schrieb: So, you might prefer 6-10 people to activate a new tracker account faster than light. I'd rather have 3-days delay in administrative issues because our single administrator is sleeping or whatever, and then have 2-3 people doing regular bug processing. Are you ever

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Boddie schrieb: When SF is down, people sometimes send tracker items to the pydev list instead, when means someone else (who?) has to put in the tracker or it gets lost. According to Harald Armin Massa's PostgreSQL talk at EuroPython, the PostgreSQL people manage all their bugs via

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: From my experience with GCC, I can only report that this is definitely not working. There used to be a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reports got either answered immediately, or not at all. People who thought they were responsible put the mails in some folder, and

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread skip
Fredrik you need tools to help you track the bugs and their status, but Fredrik you can handle issue registration, discussion, and most Fredrik maintenance stuff using good old mail just fine. Which is something SourceForge has yet to learn. At work we use a system called RT

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-08 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is something SourceForge has yet to learn. At work we use a system called RT (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/). While it's not perfect, it does allow submissions and responses via email. That feature alone puts it miles ahead of SF in my mind. I'm on the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Giovanni Bajo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giovanni Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having Giovanni to wait 48-72hrs to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable Giovanni for Python development? Yes, I think that would put a crimp in things. The downtimes we see for the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Steve Holden
Giovanni Bajo wrote: [...] I understand your concerns, but I have to remember you that most bug reports submitted by users go totally ignored for several years, or, better, forever. I do not have a correct statistic for this, but I'm confident that at least 80% of the RFE or patches filed

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Robert Hicks
Giovanni Bajo wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: You fail to recognize that Python is *already* using a non-free software for bug tracking, as do thousands of other projects. I don't think that reflects an explicit decision. SF started out as free software and the software became nonfree after

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Robert Hicks
Steve Holden wrote: snip Perhaps what I *should* have written was Sadly *many* people spend too much time bitching and moaning about those that roll their sleeves up, and not enough rolling their own sleeves up and pitching in. Sniping from the sidelines is far easier than hard work towards

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Robert Hicks
Giovanni Bajo wrote: snip You might also be understimating how negative could be the reaction from the open-source community to such a move. -- Giovanni Bajo That is simply rediculous. Step away from the kool-aid. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread James Graham
Steve Holden wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: [...] I understand your concerns, but I have to remember you that most bug reports submitted by users go totally ignored for several years, or, better, forever. I do not have a correct statistic for this, but I'm confident that at least 80% of

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Steve Holden wrote: I understand your concerns, but I have to remember you that most bug reports submitted by users go totally ignored for several years, or, better, forever. I do not have a correct statistic for this, but I'm confident that at least 80% of the RFE or patches filed every week

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Peters
[Giovanni Bajo] I understand your concerns, but I have to remember you that most bug reports submitted by users go totally ignored for several years, or, better, forever. I do not have a correct statistic for this, Indeed you do not. but I'm confident that at least 80% of the RFE or

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you ever going to try and make a point which is not you are not entitled to have opinions because you do not act? Your sarcasm is getting annoying. And since I'm not trolling nor flaming, I think I deserve a little bit more

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Aahz wrote: Are you ever going to try and make a point which is not you are not entitled to have opinions because you do not act? Your sarcasm is getting annoying. And since I'm not trolling nor flaming, I think I deserve a little bit more of respect. IMO, regardless of whether you are

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Tim Peters wrote: None are /totally ignored/ -- indeed, at least I see every one as it comes in. You might want to change your claim to that no work obviously visible to you is done on them. That would be better. Please notice that my mail was in the context of user satisfaction with the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread skip
Giovanni And, in turn, this was in the context of hiring 6-10 people as Giovanni the only acceptable minimum to maintain and admin a bug Giovanni tracker. Who said anything about hiring? I don't believe anyone expects any of the 6-10 people to work full-time (well, except for you it

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Giovanni Bajo wrote: Aahz wrote: Are you ever going to try and make a point which is not you are not entitled to have opinions because you do not act? Your sarcasm is getting annoying. And since I'm not trolling nor flaming, I think I deserve a little bit more of respect. IMO,

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for Mr. Holden... it's not a matter of not respecting you. It is in his nature to babble in this way. Sometimes it's even funny! Oh my. You have *seriously* misjudged this group if you think that comment will give you any net gain in discussions

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-07 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aahz wrote: Giovanni removed his own attribution: Are you ever going to try and make a point which is not you are not entitled to have opinions because you do not act? Your sarcasm is getting annoying. And since I'm not

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: You need just 2 active contributors - and the python community, not more Hmm, this number does not say much. It really depends on the required service level and how much time these two people can spend for maintaining the tracker service. Ciao, Michael. --

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: That, in principle, could happen to any other free software as well. What is critical here is that SF *hosted* the installation. If we would use a tracker that is free software, yet hosted it elsewhere, the same thing could happen: the hoster could make modifications to

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Giovanni Bajo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin The regular admin tasks likely include stuff like this: Martin - the system is unavailable, bring it back to work Martin This is really the worst case, and a short response time Martin is the major factor in how users perceive the service

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having to wait 48-72hrs to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable for Python development? It looks like an overexaggeration. People easily cope with 2-3 days of SVN freezing, when they are

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Ian Bicking wrote: It handles some other kinds of repositories now (bzr, I think?). From what I understand fully abstracting out the repository format seems to still be a work in progress, but it is in progress and you can write repository plugins right now. That covers Trac, but other

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Rubin schrieb: How often should a tracker freeze anyway? People with no technical knowledge at all run BBS systems that almost never freeze. Is a tracker somehow more failure-prone? It's just a special purpose BBS, I'd have thought. For whatever reason, the SF bug tracker is often

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Martin v. Löwis wrote: For whatever reason, the SF bug tracker is often down, or not responding. I'm uncertain why that is, but it's a matter of fact that this was one of the driving forces in moving away from SF (so it is a real problem). As I asked before, did anyone look into asking

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Boddie schrieb: As I asked before, did anyone look into asking large-scale users of the various considered products about their experiences with regard to reliability, scalability, and so on? I didn't ask anyone, primarily because of lack of time. Regards, Martin --

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread skip
Paul How often should a tracker freeze anyway? People with no Paul technical knowledge at all run BBS systems that almost never Paul freeze. Is a tracker somehow more failure-prone? It's just a Paul special purpose BBS, I'd have thought. And when those BBS systems get hacked

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Phillip J. Eby
Giovanni Bajo wrote: I am seriously concerned that the PSF infrastructure committee EVER considered non open-source applications for this. In fact, I thought that was an implicit requirement in the selection. The goal of the selection process is to support the work of the Python developers

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Terry Reedy
Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having to wait 48-72hrs to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable for Python development? It looks like an overexaggeration. People

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Terry Reedy wrote: When SF is down, people sometimes send tracker items to the pydev list instead, when means someone else (who?) has to put in the tracker or it gets lost. According to Harald Armin Massa's PostgreSQL talk at EuroPython, the PostgreSQL people manage all their bugs via mailing

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Michael Ströder wrote: Ilias Lazaridis wrote: You need just 2 active contributors - and the python community, not more Hmm, this number does not say much. It really depends on the required service level and how much time these two people can spend for maintaining the tracker service.

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jira is a remarkably well done product. We've adopted it internally and use it for project planning (we're doing Agile) as well as defect tracking. The plugin support and user interface just can't be touched by the competition and I've been looking. I'd prefer an open source python based system

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: David Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at the results again. Jira and RoundUp tied for functionality, but Jira has a hosting/admin offer behind it. That's huge. But rather than declaring Jira the outright winner, which they could have done, the committee has allowed

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker. http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The whole point of moving *from* SF *to* another bug tracker is to improve the situation, surely. The current situation is that the limitations and intermittant failures of the SF tracker

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Steve Holden wrote: you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. python.org could still need a few more roundup volunteers, but it's not like nobody's prepared to con- tribute manhours. don't underestimate the community. No, I'm not on the infrastructure list, but I

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: Excellent. I've just complained elsewhere in this thread that those dissenting didn't appear to want to rectify the situation by offering their time. It would be nice to be wrong about that. the dissenting won't contribute a thing, of course. they never ever do. but

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I'd prefer it if you'd drop this subject. So, if you have nothing new to say, kindly leave it. I'm happy to, but: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker. This was addressed in a

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Peters
[Ben Finney] I don't see why you're being so obtuse [Terry Reedy] I think name calling is out of line here. Name calling is always out of line on comp.lang.python. Unless it's done by Guido. Then it's OK. Anyone else, just remind them that even Hitler had better manners. That always calms

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I'd prefer it if you'd drop this subject. So, if you have nothing new to say, kindly leave it. I'm happy to, but: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker.

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Georg Brandl wrote: The python foundation suggests a non-python non-open-source bugtracking tool for python. Actually, it suggests two bugtracking tools, one of them written in Python. the announcemant's subject line said recommendation for a new issue tracker, though; not we need the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Georg Brandl wrote: The python foundation suggests a non-python non-open-source bugtracking tool for python. Actually, it suggests two bugtracking tools, one of them written in Python. the announcemant's subject line said recommendation for a new issue tracker,

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? I know for sure that GCC's Bugzilla installation is pretty much on its own; Daniel Berlin does some maintainance every once in a while (upgrading when new

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread skip
Ben This thread was started on the shock of realising that a non-free Ben tool was even being *considered* for the new Python bug Ben tracker. Those are the terms on which I've been arguing. Of course, the candidate trackers have been known for months. Messages have been posted to

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Michael Ströder
Giovanni Bajo wrote: Martin, I am by no means understimating Daniel's work. I am just noting that the spare-time work he did is, by definition, much much lower than the 6-10 people that the PSF infrastructure committee is calling for. I would like this statement to be officially reduced to

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Michael Ströder wrote: Glancing over this thread I wonder what these people are supposed to do. Any list of requirements available? from the original announcement (linked from the first post in this thread): In order for Roundup to be considered equivalent in terms of an overall tracker

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Michael Ströder schrieb: Martin, I am by no means understimating Daniel's work. I am just noting that the spare-time work he did is, by definition, much much lower than the 6-10 people that the PSF infrastructure committee is calling for. I would like this statement to be officially reduced

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Steve Holden wrote: Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread skip
Martin The regular admin tasks likely include stuff like this: Martin - the system is unavailable, bring it back to work Martin This is really the worst case, and a short response time Martin is the major factor in how users perceive the service Martin - the system is

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Paul Boddie wrote: Perhaps, although I imagine that Trac would have a lot more uptake if it handled more than just Subversion repositories. It handles some other kinds of repositories now (bzr, I think?). From what I understand fully abstracting out the repository format seems to still be a

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Rubin schrieb: Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a fork of an old version. Existence of this version hasn't helped a bit when we tried to get our data out of sf.net. Yeah, I'd guessed it might be a fork. Is there stuff in sf.net that a web robot can't retrieve? We ended

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I hope this recommendation from the PSF infrastructure committee is rejected. That is very very unlikely. Who would reject it, and why? The community, and I am impressed you do not want to understand the why. It is an extremely bad picture for an open source flag like

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Fredrik Lundh wrote: 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. Frankly, I don't give a damn

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Does this smell Bitkeeper fiasco to anyone else than me? I can't understand why people waste time arguing this stuff. Use whatever tool is best at it's job... if it's not written in Python it doesn't mean that Python is not good for the task,

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
A.M. Kuchling wrote: ... using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never heard before of course) for Python itself. Other projects do use it; see http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira for a partial list, and a link to the Apache Software Foundation's issue trackers. which, in my

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: It's significantly different from the Bitkeeper fiasco in two important ways: 1. Bitkeeper is a source revisioning system, so it is similar to CVS and Subversion. This project here is just the bug tracker, which is of lesser importance. If we move to a

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And i dunno what the case against Trac is (it looks a fine tool for my small projects) but probably it's not good enough for python.org Trac is really good in my experience. http://trac.edgewall.org/ Python.org has already moved to svn so trac is

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Richard Jones
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And i dunno what the case against Trac is (it looks a fine tool for my small projects) but probably it's not good enough for python.org Trac is really good in my experience. Trac was considered. A nice extra is that it

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 10/4/06, Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Craig-Wood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And i dunno what the case against Trac is (it looks a fine tool for my small projects) but probably it's not good enough for python.org Trac is really good in my

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Holden
Giovanni Bajo wrote: A.M. Kuchling wrote: ... using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never heard before of course) for Python itself. Other projects do use it; see http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira for a partial list, and a link to the Apache Software Foundation's issue

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Richard Jones wrote: Nick Craig-Wood wrote: Trac is really good in my experience. Trac was considered. A nice extra is that it is written in python. So are Roundup and Launchpad, two of the other three trackers considered. It should be noted that most skepticism (that I'm aware of)

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: But sadly people are much happier complaining on c.l.py than exerting themselves to support the community with an open source issue tracker. you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. python.org could still need a few more roundup volunteers, but it's not like nobody's

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:37:47 GMT, Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seriously concerned that the PSF infrastructure committee EVER considered non open-source applications for this. In fact, I thought that was an implicit requirement in the selection. Being open source

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
A.M. Kuchling wrote: I am seriously concerned that the PSF infrastructure committee EVER considered non open-source applications for this. In fact, I thought that was an implicit requirement in the selection. Being open source wasn't a requirement; which is, indeed, shocking and amazing.

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Giovanni Bajo wrote: In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? I wonder what kinds of insights were sought from other open source projects. It's not as if there aren't any big open source projects having approachable

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Steve Holden wrote: But sadly people are much happier complaining on c.l.py than exerting themselves to support the community with an open source issue tracker. you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. python.org could still need a few more roundup

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understood B.C.'s announcement, that was one of the judging criteria, and the plan is for PSF to get a daily backup dump of the data. This had nothing to do with the choice of not using Trac or Launchpad. Quoting Brett Cannon from the original mail:

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sniping from the sidelines is far easier than hard work towards a goal. Right now there is not even agreement on what the goal is. The surprise people are expressing is because they thought one of the goals of a big open source project would be to avoid

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker? - Trac?

2006-10-04 Thread Harry George
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Holden wrote: But sadly people are much happier complaining on c.l.py than exerting themselves to support the community with an open source issue tracker. you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. python.org could still need a few

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Boddie wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? I wonder what kinds of insights were sought from other open source projects. It's not as if there aren't any big open source projects

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Holden
Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone wrote: Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understood B.C.'s announcement, that was one of the judging criteria, and the plan is for PSF to get a daily backup dump of the data. This had nothing to do with the choice of not using Trac or Launchpad.

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So clearly the 'get a daily backup of the data' is not the reason. Backing up a sqlite database is pretty easy. Do you have any idea fo the scale of the Python issue (bug) database? Do you really think SQLite would be a suitable platform for it?

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Valentino Volonghi wrote: Considering that trac can also run on postgres or mysql and also considering that both of these databases have enough tools to deal with backups I think it's a non issue. 10k entries shouldn't be much of an issue for sqlite3 either. (I don't think any of the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Valentino Volonghi wrote: Considering that trac can also run on postgres or mysql and also considering that both of these databases have enough tools to deal with backups I think it's a non issue. 10k entries shouldn't be much of an issue for sqlite3 either. Out of

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Istvan Albert
Giovanni Bajo wrote: I understand your point. OTOH, exactly because the tracker system is a far lesser importance, it's amazing there is *ever* a need to evaluate non-FLOSS solutions, when there are so many good free solutions around. Instead of I think you are missing the point. Switching to

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread skip
Giovanni In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much Giovanni effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? The development group's experience with SF and I think to a lesser extent, Roundup in its early days, and more generally with other components of the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread skip
Istvan I think you are missing the point. Switching to a different Istvan tracker is not such a big deal. Having a really good tracker is Istvan a big deal. No, actually switching trackers can be one big pain in the ass. You probably aren't aware of how hard it's been for the Python

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giovanni In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much Giovanni effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? The development group's experience with SF and I think to a lesser extent, Roundup in its early days, and more generally with

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Steve Holden wrote: No, I'm not on the infrastructure list, but I know that capable people *are*: and you know I am quite capable of donating my time to the cause, when I have it to spare (and sometimes even when I don't). Perhaps what I *should* have written was Sadly *many* people spend

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread fuzzylollipop
Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never heard before of

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On 04 Oct 2006 06:44:24 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: Right now there is not even agreement on what the goal is. The goal is a new tracker for python.org that the developers like better; the original call lists 3 reasons (bad interface; lack of reliability; lack of workflow controls).

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Giovanni Bajo wrote: The current request is: please, readers of python-dev, setup a team of 6-10 people to handle roundup or we'll go to a non-free software for bug tracking. Actually, it would appear that the request goes out to comp.lang.python/python-list as well (ie. the ungrateful plebs

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-04 Thread David Goodger
Giovanni Bajo wrote: The current request is: please, readers of python-dev, setup a team of 6-10 people to handle roundup or we'll go to a non-free software for bug tracking. This is something which I cannot cope with, and I'm *speaking* up against. Were the request lowered to something more

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