All,

We have decided to stop using JIRA as our ticketing system and move to
GitHub Issues.

>From now on, if you have a bug report or feature request, please submit it
at:

https://github.com/apache/wicket/issues

We thank JIRA for its many years of service, but the time has come to move
on.

There are a few reasons for this:
- ASF JIRA has a separate account system, requiring contributors to sign up
and us to approve accounts due to spam.
- JIRA and GitHub are separate systems, which makes linking issues, commits
and pull requests more cumbersome.
- GitHub Issues and pull requests are directly linked and are already where
most development activity happens.

Other Apache projects have made this move before us, and some have seen an
increase in contributions from new developers and broader community
participation.

Later this week I'll ask Apache Infra to put the old Wicket JIRA into
read-only mode, after which it can join the other migrated projects in a
nice green meadow somewhere in the mountains.

If there is an existing JIRA ticket that you care about, please recreate it
in the GitHub issue tracker and include a link to the original JIRA ticket.
That way the new issue is associated with your GitHub account, and you can
keep track of it there.

We will not automatically migrate the existing JIRA tickets. Apart from not
being able to reliably identify the original submitters on GitHub, doing so
would create a considerable amount of administrative work.

The core team may still pick up relevant JIRA issues while working on bug
fixes and new features, but we make no guarantees. The goal of this move is
to reduce administration, not create more of it.

Kind regards,

-- The Wicket team
<http://wicketinaction.com>

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