Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
- Date
- Mar 1, 2012, 05:16 UTC
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Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
> Additionally, if we are not prepared to use non-Free tools, we should > probably stop using github.
I think the issue isn't "using" non-free tools so much as it's getting _locked into_ non-free tools.
So if JIRA makes all its data trivially exportable in a format which is easy to use, and there's some way of isolating references to it so that it's possible to switch to something else without undue hardship, maybe it's not such a big deal.
[Github is a prime example of a non-free tool which is largely avoids the lockin issue, and I imagine that's why so many free projects happily use it. That's generally true of any git repo site, given the super-easy cloneability of git repos, but Github also provides good export of the meta-data it keeps (issues, etc).]
-Miles
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