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

[Wernfried Haas <amne@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:32:50AM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> However, I don't believe that Bugzilla is such a separate entity from
> the distribution as a whole. I, for one, would simply stop reporting
> bugs there if it was switched to a proprietary bug-tracking tool. Now,
> one could say that this isn't much of a problem (since it's all entirely
> voluntary, right?); but think of this on a grander scale of other F/OSS
> advocates: you would have much less community involvement.

Wasn't there Ubuntu's meta-bugtracker that runs on some proprietary
stuff which didn't get too much love because of it?

While i share the view that the social contract doesn't stop us from
using proprietary software, it sure is a great to prove to people that
we are able to run web servers, rsync mirrors, support forums, bug
tracker, blogs and lots of other stuff with free software and do not
require the help of some closed software. That's just a great way to
show this stuff actually works even outside some long haired hippie
students apartment. ;-)

cheers,
	Wernfried

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