[Board] Permission to use osgeo name in a Jira installation hosted at atlassian.net

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Andrea,

I hope you're having a good FOSS4GNA event.  I am there in spirit.

I too support this of course.  Let me know if you need anything, so 
please proceed, this instance will be a great help for all projects.

-jeff



On 2015-03-10 11:56 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hello Board,
> as you probably know GeoTools and GeoServer are about to lose the ticket
> tracking
> system currently hosted at codehaus.org <http://codehaus.org>, as
> codehaus shuts down in the next couple
> of months.
>
> We discussed internally and decided we want to keep working on Jira because
> it supports our workflow best and can handle large attachments (vital
> for addressing
> many bug reports).
>
> Now, we looked into setting up on Atlassian cloud service, which
> provided a hosted
> Jira instance for free to open source projects.
> We started with a geoserver.atlassian.net
> <http://geoserver.atlassian.net> and we got approval quickly from
> Atlassian.net,
> but then we considered that it would be probably more appropriate to get
> a single
> isntance for both GeoTools and GeoServer, and whatever other OSGeo project
> would like to use Jira.
> Cloud services are nice in that the Jira authors themselves are going to
> keep the site
> running, do upgrades and the like. And we have the ability to do full
> exports in case
> things go south for any reason.
>
> So, we would like to stand up a osgeo.atlassian.net
> <http://osgeo.atlassian.net> instead, and have geotools
> and geoserver use that for starters (the host name is fixed, has to be
> <yourname>.atlassian.net <http://atlassian.net>).
>
> So... what the board thinks of it?
> If we get the get go, is it ok for me to ask Atlassian on behalf of
> Osgeo, or would
> someone from the board be a more appropriate person to make the request?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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