Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August

[Matthew Marlowe]

> iWho knows, maybe its worth finding another bug database
> app, or even be crazy and write our own for a long term solution.
>

If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian 
Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.   It seems to be gaining 
mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 
because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports 
multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects.  

MattM
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Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla (was: "Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August")

[Peter Gordon]

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Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian 
> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.   It seems to be gaining 
> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 
> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports 
> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects.  

Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the
distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social
Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It
states:
	
	"Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or
	metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License,
	the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons -
	Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the
	Open Source Initiative (OSI)."

Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead
of something like vBulletin, for example? :)

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
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Re: Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla (was: "Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August")

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:30:03 -0700 Peter Gordon
<codergeek42@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of
| the distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's
| Social Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of
| openness). It states:
| 	
| 	"Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or
| 	metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License,
| 	the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons -
| 	Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the
| 	Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
| 
| Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead
| of something like vBulletin, for example? :)

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.

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

[Peter Gordon]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 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)
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla

[Lance Albertson]

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Peter Gordon wrote:
> Matthew Marlowe wrote:
>> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian 
>> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.   It seems to be gaining 
>> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 
>> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports 
>> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects.  
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the
> distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social
> Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It
> states:
> 	
> 	"Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or
> 	metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License,
> 	the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons -
> 	Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the
> 	Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
> 
> Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead
> of something like vBulletin, for example? :)
> 
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml

I'm not entirely sure if this is directed towards the supporting web
applications or of Gentoo itself. To me its directed towards the meta
distribution and not any of the underlying support mechanisms of Gentoo.
 If we were to use some non-gpl webapp, the underlying Gentoo system you
run does not depend on a non-gpl piece of software. A bug tracking
system is not an underlying component of Gentoo. Its just a tool that
helps with development of Gentoo.

But anyways, some people view it in the strict sense and they're
entitled to it. That's just how I view it when I read it. Its a bit
vague on what Gentoo really is. Is it talking only about the meta
distribution? Or that plus the underlying supporting systems that help
run Gentoo?

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

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

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Lance Albertson wrote:
> Peter Gordon wrote:
>> Matthew Marlowe wrote:
>>> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian 
>>> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.   It seems to be gaining 
>>> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 
>>> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports 
>>> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects.  
>> Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the
>> distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social
>> Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It
>> states:
>> 	
>> 	"Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or
>> 	metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License,
>> 	the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons -
>> 	Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the
>> 	Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
>>
>> Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead
>> of something like vBulletin, for example? :)
>>
>> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
> 
> I'm not entirely sure if this is directed towards the supporting web
> applications or of Gentoo itself. To me its directed towards the meta
> distribution and not any of the underlying support mechanisms of Gentoo.
>  If we were to use some non-gpl webapp, the underlying Gentoo system you
> run does not depend on a non-gpl piece of software. A bug tracking
> system is not an underlying component of Gentoo. Its just a tool that
> helps with development of Gentoo.
> 
> But anyways, some people view it in the strict sense and they're
> entitled to it. That's just how I view it when I read it. Its a bit
> vague on what Gentoo really is. Is it talking only about the meta
> distribution? Or that plus the underlying supporting systems that help
> run Gentoo?
> 

I think it is perfectly valid we use this kind of tools for development;
as far as i know, our SC refers to those components (in form of software
and metadata) to be free software upon which a user depend to build a
Gentoo system, and this isn't one of those components. Though i admit it
might bring some kind of 'controversy' .

/me remenbers bitkeeper

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

[Peter Gordon]

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Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
> I think it is perfectly valid we use this kind of tools for development;
> as far as i know, our SC refers to those components (in form of software
> and metadata) to be free software upon which a user depend to build a
> Gentoo system, and this isn't one of those components. Though i admit it
> might bring some kind of 'controversy' .

I've got no problem with people wanting to actively use proprietary
software instead of F/OSS alternatives because of much better features,
security record, etc. (Here's where that phpBB vs vBulletin example
comes to mind again.) Heck, it's their choice, right? My quarrel is with
the fact that this would be the designated tool for full development
usage and whatnot.

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.

One of the core foundations, as I see it, of a community-driven Linux
distribution such as Gentoo is exactly that: the community. Bugzilla
provides a reasonably-somewhat-sane infrastructure to keep track of the
various bugs, issues, and feature requests being put forth by its users
and is one of the primary methods of communication between the user and
developer camps.

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

[Wernfried Haas]

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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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