From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:45:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests
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:
>
>  I have set up a JIRA instance using Atlassian's OnDemand service,
>  available at https://git-scm.atlassian.net/
>
> Do people really think it's reasonable to use non-Free tools to develop
> git?  That seems surprising to me.
>

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