Re: Speaking of JIRA, Where's Ours?

[Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>]

On 06/30/2011 09:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Rob Weir<ap...@robweir.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'd like to reopen this question,since I haven't seen a resolution.
>>
>> I'm hearing some proposing Bugzilla, because of familiarity and ease
>> of migration.
>>
>> I'm also hearing some say that JIRA is superior.
>>
>> I'm not really persuaded by either argument.  I wonder if we could
>> briefly drill down into this a bit more.
>>
>> 1) I read that the  OOo bugzilla has been customized.  Can anyone
>> explain the nature of the customizations?
>>
>> 2) In what sense if JIRA better?  IMHO all defect tracking systems
>> suck.  But I'm open to the possibility that some suck less.
>>
>> 3) On migration, would it be reasonable to attempt a sandboxed trial
>> migration of Bugzilla to JIRA, and let skeptics poke at it for a
>> while, to see if, for example, IDs are preserved, etc.?  Would that be
>> much work?  The easiest way to convince people that JIRA is possible
>> and reasonable might be to actually do it.
>>
>> 4) What are the downsides of Bugzilla?  If it is a supported option at
>> Apache, wouldn't that be the obvious choice?  I think we'd need to
>> make a good case for why an alternative would be better.  What are,
>> say, the top 3 things that JIRA would do better than Bugzilla?
>>
>
> I can argually say that both suck,

yep! :) to and end user, both are quite obtuse!

  the issue tracker that I have seen
> easiest is the one provided by google code.
>
> The problem with that tracker is that I am not sure is doable for larger
> projects.
>
> The biggest hump of using an issue tracker is locating the right people
> (subcomponent) to get the issue to, or asigning a developer to it. whcih
> most times is not aparent. The previous OOo (Collabnet) supported templates
> which fill out your issue tracker in order to submit the issues faster.
> However I found not many people really used it.

with jira you can set up "default" assignees, and many other things if 
you care to. There's a lot you can do to "customize" jira but it does 
take a fair amount of work.


>
> I can go to JIRA and find the feature list and compare it with Bugzilla, and
> I can see there are some minor advantages, but I agree that the familiarity
> of bugzilla is usually lower the learning curve for most people. I mean
> whats the point of having a better issue tracker if the users don't get it
> right away?
>
>
>
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Dave Fisher<da...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16.06.2011 16:45, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
>>>>> Hi *,
>>>>>
>>>>> (to moderators: I guess the list software used checks on Sender, not
>>>>> on From - so if you need to review this message, please add the sender
>>>>> address to a "allowed posters" lists for both dev and notifications
>>>>> please)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Marcus Lange<ma...@wtnet.de>
>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would prefer Bugzilla, too. We have already migrated recently to
>> this, so
>>>>>> transition would be much easier to bring it into Apache. And because
>> of
>>>>>> OOo's project size I would also like to see a new instance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not because of project size, but also for the sake of preserving the
>>>>> issue-numbers that are spread all over the place, last but not least
>>>>> in the code itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> So whatever you choose, make sure that there is a way to get form
>>>>> #i1234# to the actual bug that corresponds to the id.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, keeping issue ids is the most important thing. Which bug tracker we
>> use would be a second order priority for me.
>>>
>>> There seems to be consensus.
>>>
>>> (1) We must somehow preserve the old bugzilla ids.
>>>
>>> (2) There is no clear preference on Bugzilla over JIRA.
>>>
>>> I think that we need to ask the infrastructure team what they think about
>> the situation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave
>>
>
>
>

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