[Adium-devl] The evils of Trac (was: Re: [Adium-feedback] Fwd: ContactUs - Adium X - Trac)

[James Cox]

On 27 Sep 2006, at 01:34, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:25 PM, James Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> On 27 Sep 2006, at 01:13, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
>>>
>>>> bugzilla - ugh. The macports guys are moving away from this to  
>>>> trac.
>>>> I also believe this requires registration by the user.
>>>> simpleticket - too early to use it. Plus it requires registration.
>>>> Mantis - Actually wouldn't be too bad. Requires either a user  
>>>> account
>>>> to be made, or usage of anonymantis. Which has no spam protection.
>>>> The other 30-40 options: 9/10 require user registration that I have
>>>> found.
>>>>
>>>> Point is though, they all have problems. I don't know of any  
>>>> (doesn't
>>>> mean there aren't any) that integrate as well with svn though.
>>>
>>> There's one you didn't mention: Jira. ccgus has been raving about  
>>> it. It costs money, but we might be able to get them to donate a  
>>> license or something. You can check it out at http:// 
>>> flyingmeat.com/jira/
>>
>> last time i remembered checking it out, jira requires a java  
>> env... I think that'll be a dealbreaker for me :)
>
> Jira is in Java, yes. Why is this a dealbreaker?


of course it's not a massive dealbreaker, but i'm mindful of having a  
JVM+more instance hanging around.... especially since i think  
everyone is trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist..

however, i do know staff at atlassian and can probably get a jira  
license or three donated.....

-j