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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Neeraj Bajaj <Ne...@Sun.COM> on 2004/04/01 11:19:14 UTC

Re: [VOTE]: migrate Xerces-* to Jira

+1.

Neeraj


Neil Graham wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For at least the last two years, both Xerces-C and Xerces-J have used
> Bugzilla as their bug-tracking system.
> Recently, the Infrastructure team installed a new tool named Jira.  You can
> get a feel for Jira by going here:
> http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
> 
> The 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 folks interested in
> assuring the pedigree of Xerces code--and, in this day and age I can't but
> imagine that's everybody--this too would be a nice win.
> 
> So I'd like to propose that Xerces-C and Xerces-J migrate to Jira.
> Xerces-P is already waiting for us there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Neil
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Phone:  905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
> E-mail:  neilg@ca.ibm.com
> 
> 
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-- Neeraj



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