Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests

From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2012, 00:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH5451kWaRGutP1esuvjSK-arrEc=5m-SDwVHACx6QF9JFj-MQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <rmifwdti2ap.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>

On 1 March 2012 11:37, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:

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>  I have set up a JIRA instance using Atlassian's OnDemand service,
>  available at https://git-scm.atlassian.net/
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> Do people really think it's reasonable to use non-Free tools to develop
> git?  That seems surprising to me.
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Maybe not, and if that is the case I am more than happy to let this die.

That said, this is the tool I know how to use best, and is in my opinion the most flexible, reliable and supported. The source code is available on request to customers to extend or modify (or at least it used to be) and the company is very supportive of open source projects in general.

Additionally, if we are not prepared to use non-Free tools, we should probably stop using github. (This example is a little trite, seeing as there are non-github alternatives available for grabbing the source code. Then again, the mailing list is not disappearing any time soon, so there is a free alternative to _any_ bug tracker that is used)

Regards,

Andrew Ardill