[Scons-dev] Roundup tracker demo instance...

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Florian,

On 04.10.2015 09:54, Florian Miedniak wrote:
> Dirk,  thanks for clarifying! I'll give it a try and adapt the importer for jira, so we have an equal base for comparison with
> roundup. -florian
>

I'm not pushing, just curious. Any news or progress regarding the Jira import (migration from Tigris bugtracker)?

Best regards,

Dirk

>
> -------- Original message --------
> Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] Roundup tracker demo instance...
> From: Dirk Baechle <tshortik at gmx.de>
> To: SCons developer list <scons-dev at scons.org>
> CC:
>
>
> Hi Florian,
>
> your mail sums it up pretty well. Thanks for taking the time to skim through those old messages. We definitely are interested in
> making progress wherever that's possible.
> But with a large project like SCons and major decisions to be made, "bikeshedding" is always around...and can bring things to a halt
> quickly.
> Further, we did have a tracker and most of the latest development was done by direct pull requests...which might have let this
> problem appear as one of lower priority.
> I agree that it's time for a clear decision...from my angle the two candidates are Roundup and Jira. Both seem to be able to do the
> job on the technical level. So we can't choose "wrong" and just have to pick. Leaves the question how to do that. Would any of the
> devs be opposed to a simple poll, where everybody supports his favourite tool?
>
> Independent of how the decision is made, what will happen later is that-just like in the git vs hg battle-voices speak up from time
> to time, claiming that a switch to the other alternative is what the project needs right now. That's just how open-source works
> these days I guess. :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
> P.S.: I wrote all of the above under the assumption that the technical migration from Tigris to Jira is possible and preserves the
> full history, including the creation dates of issues and messages /comments. I'm stressing this point so much, because even in
> Roundup it's only possible with a work-around. ;)
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