JIRA plugin for bazaar ?

[Ben Finney]

Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:29 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > As I understand it, Jira is non-free software, so I don't know
> > what the Bazaar project could do about it.
> 
> Many open source projects use JIRA since Atlassian have a special
> licence for open source projects. See for example Codehaus
> (www.codehaus.org) -- which hosts Groovy, Gant, Gradle, Grails, vast
> numbers of Maven plugins, etc., etc.

Are the lessons of BitKeeper, which for a long time had a “special
license for open source projects”, that so famously imploded and
required the hurried implementation of Git, so quickly forgotten?

> Codehaus have realized they have to support repositories other than
> Subversion ones. Git and Mercurial was their list.

Apparently these people have no sense of irony.

> I jumped up and down and shouted (metaphorically anyway) and got
> Bazaar added.
[…]

> The idea of being able to accept patches from anyone for voting by
> the development team really is in the true spirit of FOSS. --
> especially when using DVCS suhc as Bazaar, Mercurial or Git.

I truly wish you the best in your efforts; however, I can't see the
gain in enabling a non-free BTS, any more than I can see the gain in
enabling a non-free DVCS. I prefer instead to promote and support free
software tools and to hasten the demise of software that fails to
respect users's freedom.

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