From kde-core-devel Tue May 04 19:13:51 2021 From: Ben Cooksley Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 19:13:51 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Koko in KDEReview Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=162015564814159 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--000000000000a39e8405c185e1f5" --000000000000a39e8405c185e1f5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Wed, 5 May 2021, 7:02 am Nate Graham, wrote: > On 5/4/21 12:57 PM, Alexander Semke wrote: > > Jira can do all of this, except of the tight integration with GitLab out > of > > the box maybe, and even more. I'm heavily using Jira at work on the > daily base > > and it's a very reliable and feature-rich tool for project management and > > issue tracking. Many open source communities are using Jira, also Qt. > > > > If we try to have an open mind and are also ok with closed source > software > > that is offering its service for open source projects, should we > consider Jira > > as well? > > > > https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request > > I don't think we can consider that kind of thing, or else we would be > using GitLab EE (which is offered for free to FOSS projects) rather than > GitLab CE. > Nate is correct here, as a matter of policy we only run software that is FOSS. > FWIW I used Jira a lot professionally before my KDE days and am not a > big fan of it. My experience with it was that it was slow, confusing, > buggy, and ate my text a lot. Maybe it's better now, I dunno. > > Nate > Cheers, Ben > --000000000000a39e8405c185e1f5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, 5 May 2021, 7:02 am Nate Graham, <nate@kde.org> wrote:
On 5/4/21 12:57 PM, Alexander Semke wrote:
> Jira can do all of this, except of the tight integration with GitLab o= ut of
> the box maybe, and even more. I'm heavily using Jira at work on th= e daily base
> and it's a very reliable and feature-rich tool for project managem= ent and
> issue tracking. Many open source communities are using Jira, also Qt.<= br> >
> If we try to have an open mind and are also ok with closed source soft= ware
> that is offering its service for open source projects, should we consi= der Jira
> as well?
>
> https://www.atla= ssian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request

I don't think we can consider that kind of thing, or else we would be <= br> using GitLab EE (which is offered for free to FOSS projects) rather than GitLab CE.

Nate is correct here, as a matter of policy we only run software = that is FOSS.=C2=A0


FWIW I used Jira a lot professionally before my KDE days and am not a
big fan of it. My experience with it was that it was slow, confusing,
buggy, and ate my text a lot. Maybe it's better now, I dunno.

Nate

Cheers,=C2=A0
Ben
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