[Qgis-psc] Infrastructure

[Otto Dassau]

Am Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:05:34 +0100
schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:

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> Il 20/03/2013 07:56, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
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> > Maybe I am loosing some of my idealism of youth but I have been
> > increasingly following the principle of 'best tool for the job,
> > preferring FOSS wherever possible'.....this is something of a
> > degradation of my 'FOSS or death' outlook, but it proprietary tools are
> > needed to help us make our project better then so be it.
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> > On the subject of the github tracker - we use it for InaSAFE and I must
> > say it is 1000000 times better than redmine / trac anything else - its
> > really simple to use - its a personal failing but I hardly ever look in
> > redmine because I find it so slow and klunky to work with.
> 
> Thanks Tim for being frank (Frank?). Yes, that's my perception, and by
> raising this point I'm trying to make this an explicit choice, rather than
> a creeping feeling. Setting aside idealism, I think we should consider
> real threats and opportunities, and going the appropriate way: if risks
> are very low in the long term, let's simplify and move on; if not, let's
> consolidate an alternative approach. Opinions?
> All the best.
> - -- 
> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia

+1 from me to select the 'best tool for the job' with a strong preference for
open source - if possible. In the case of github and redmine I would also
prefere to consolidate and use github tracker, if it is 1 Mio times better.

Regards
Otto