[Incubator] seang on "How Rigorous is OSGeo Software Incubation?"

[Paul Spencer]

Uli,

if you like bugzilla, we could set up a mapbender product on  
maptools.org.  Bugzilla has many strange behaviours, but many open  
source projects and developers seem to like it a lot.

Cheers

Paul

On 21-Jul-06, at 7:42 AM, Uli Rothstein wrote:

> Dear Incubator Committee,
>
> first we (the mapbender dev-team) definitively agree that a bug  
> tracker is essential for a project and consider that the discussion  
> during the incubation process about those lacks of a project is the  
> crucial factor hardening projects.
> Thanks for your encouragement.
> We've activated the bug tracker on sourceforge in 2003 (http:// 
> sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=88554&atid=587112). But this  
> tracker never worked according to our wishes. There are different  
> reasons: the developers, the users, the tracker.
> So in most cases the bugs were managed in the mailinglists and the  
> wiki (http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Bugs), however the tracker  
> was available all the time.
> They (lists and wiki) are definitively no standard bug trackers,  
> but they are "open" systems and it was not our intention to close  
> off transparency and make new people to outsiders. We had simply to  
> provide an easy-to-use management for bugs, because the bug tracker  
> on sf.net was not accepted by the different participants.
>
> Knowing that we've to close this gap of a standard bug tracker that  
> works, we've called a mapbender irc (with Frank Warmerdam and  
> Arnulf Christl from the Incubator Committee).
> So we come to the following decisions:
> - The bug tracker on sf.net will be revived until a new tracker is  
> found.
> - If there is a solution for different osgeo-project, the mapbender  
> project will migrate directly.
> - the mapbender-team hopes, that there will be a practicable  
> solution, as Chris Holmes remarked: "I'll try to find some time to  
> work on getting jira licenses for OSGeo and putting them on a test  
> box" and "With GeoTools we never used our sourceforge bug tracker,  
> but when we got JIRA going on codeahaus the tracker was suddenly a  
> big win."
> - all reported bugs from the lists and the wiki should be migrated  
> to the sf.net bug tracker
>
> Until this time we make efforts to invite all developers and users  
> to revive the existing bug tracker.
>
> Sorry for not reporting this earlier.
> Best regards
> Uli Rothstein
>
>
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