Hello fellow Xalan developers.
I'm asking for a vote on migrating from Xalan's current bug tracking
system, Bugzilla to JIRA's issue tracking system.
Xalan has been using Bugzilla as its bug-tracking system for a number of
years. Recently the Apache Infrastructure team installed a new tool name
JIRA (sound like Beer - ahhh). You can check it out at:
http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
If you have a bugzilla account (and you should if you are a Xalan
developer) then you should use the same user ID for JIRA. I don't know
what will happen if you don't do this ....
You will need a new password for JIRA which you can easily set up from the
page indicated above by putting ID in and clicking "Forgot Password".
Later you can log in with the one mailed to you and set it as you like.
The Apache Infrastructure team has also developed scripts which enable all
information in existing Bugzilla databases to be migrated over to
Jira--that is, the status and history of all bugs,as well as Bugzilla
account information.
Niel Graham, who was involved with migrating Xerces to JIRA has said this:
>> In my opinion,
>> Jira is a significantly better product than Bugzilla.
>> Its interface is cleaner and faster to use, and, moreover,
>> it is possible to generate XML reports from Jira--which
>> are much more amenable to
>> post-processing than is the HTML that Bugzilla emits.
I like the way the different Apache projects that are on JIRA have "issue"
keys that are not just numbers but a prefix indicating the product,
followed by a number, e.g. XERCESC-1209.
Further, there has been discussion in the infrastructure community of
obliging users to certify that they understand the implications of
uploading files (such as patches) to Apache. For the Apache Software
Foundation, and for other parties that package Apache code with theirs,
there is a strong interest in assuring the pedigree of Xalan code for legal
purposes.
Regards,
Brian Minchau
XSLT Development, IBM Toronto
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