Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla

[Matthew Marlowe <mattm@gentoo.org>]

> > In the past, it's been more or less agreed that it's not depending
> > upon it if it uses an open data format... There was talk of moving the
> > forums to proprietary software at one point, for example.
>
> I see. Thanks for the clarification, Ciaran. (Though as an aside,
> I'd like to mention that it'd still be a bad idea to do so. :P)

I think my reply from a non-dev email address got eaten, so I'll reply again:

1) Jira can produce automated backups/exports of the database in XML format, 
which means we can always write a tool to convert the data to a format 
acceptable to any other bug mngmt software anytime we want.

2) It imports from bugzilla

3) Free license and apparently even some free support and infrastructure 
management for open-source projects.  Apparently, they donated one of the bug 
db's that the apache software foundation is using, for instance. 

See:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp#nonprofit
http://opensource.atlassian.com/

4) There is some nice functionality to integrate with cvs, subversion, etc if 
we ever find a use for that.

However, I was just throwing out the jira stuff as an idea and my 2 cents 
given the concerns about bugzilla.   The current db running on myisam table 
format is rather scary, given gentoo's size. 

MattM
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