[Scons-dev] SCons developer DVCS survey

[William Blevins]

I've used Jira before.  I think it's alright, but perhaps a bit heavy
weight. I'm up for anything as long as we are willing to commit to better
task prioritization. I think bug triages stopped before I got here :)

V/R,
William

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> <random thoughts on bug trackers>
> Honestly I'm surprised how much bug trackers are a religious discussion...
> For decade plus I've deployed bugzilla at almost every client.
>
> Jira seems to be the new hotness.
> And of course there seem to many also ran's, and those integrated with
> DVCS hosting (none of which are as good as bugzilla (IMHO))
> </random thoughts on bug trackers>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:46 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Atlassian has Jira, so they aren't going to allow of easy integration of
>> 3rd-party trackers.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Russel,
>>>
>>> Why stop looking at tigris?
>>>
>>> One other bonus to github is integration with things like readthedocs,
>>> and other third party tools is either better or doesn't exist for bitbucket
>>> (at least last time I looked).
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 23:12 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>> > I am 1 of 2 people out of 11 who still prefer Mercurial. OMG. =)
>>>> >
>>>> > I wonder why Mercurial is considered bad. Is it just a poor user
>>>> > experience with BitBucket or there is something more in it?
>>>>
>>>> There is a lot about Mercurial (and Bazaar) that I like, especially
>>>> command lines, etc. Despite years of improvement, the Git command line
>>>> still seems something like a Perl script designed to replicate line
>>>> noise.
>>>>
>>>> However for me, the Git wins are explicit remote tracking branches, so
>>>> that you can see things in gitg, and the transitory nature of feature
>>>> branches. I think I am echoing Bill here, but the fact that branch
>>>> identifiers are immutable in Mercurial means that Bazaar wins. And
>>>> Bazaar effectively got killed off when Canonical pulled the finance.
>>>>
>>>> I still use Mercurial somewhat for personal projects, but these are
>>>> default branch only repositories. Much as I really dislike Git in so
>>>> many ways, it is a better tool for serendipitous, feature branch based,
>>>> multi-repository working.
>>>>
>>>> As for the GitHub vs BitBucket thing: now that BitBucket has switched
>>>> to being a Git resource rather than a Mercurial resource, it is purely
>>>> down to whether BitBucket pull requests system is better or worse than
>>>> the GitHub one, and most importantly whether being on BitBucket or
>>>> GitHub is better for marketing.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from not working on Python 3.4+ as well as Python 2.7, SCons
>>>> biggest problem is marketing.
>>>>
>>>> As for issues, I'm afraid I've stopped even looking at Tigris.
>>>> --
>>>> Russel.
>>>>
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