Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > "Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: > >>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html > >>where the "PSF infrastracture committee", after weeks of evaluation, > >>recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never > >>heard before of course) for Python itself. > >> > >>Does this smell "Bitkeeper fiasco" to anyone else than me? > > > > Sounds crazy, what's wrong with bugzilla? > > Much the same as is wrong with the existing SourceForge system, I'd say.
The existing SourceForge system runs on non-free software, which is a significant differentiator from Bugzilla. I would be greatly dismayed to see the PSF choosing to move critical Python development data into a non-free system. I hope this recommendation from the "PSF infrastructure committee" is rejected. -- \ "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their | `\ home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of | _o__) Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
