On 2025-05-23 at 10:00, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" >> >> <j...@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. >> >> Thankfully that's not an option for us (not dfsg free). >> > But it could be an option. If Atlassian offered the Debian project > free (gratis) use of their platform (especially if they handle the > administration), why wouldn't we accept? Just off the top of my head, I can think of a few possible reasons (some of which may or may not apply in practice): * The feature set of the platform may not be up to par with what we need, or at least what we're accustomed to. * The UI/UX the platform provides may be a downward step from what we already have. (This is subjective, of course.) * Using a service provided by a third party leaves one at the mercy of that third party's decisions about feature changes, UI/UX changes, and change schedules. If they decide to change the way the platform works (which they easily might), and don't coordinate it with us (which, why would they?), that could leave us in a scramble or an outright mess. * Just because they offer the use of the platform free *now*, doesn't mean they always *will*. Being locked in to that solution, and having it pulled out from under our feet (either as an absolute or as an "unless you want to pay us now"), would be a bad situation to be in. We easily might decide we don't want to take the risk of winding up in that position. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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