FWIW (my opinion shouldn't matter here), I really despise Jira, and find examples like github's much more elegant and user friendly. On Jan 9, 2012 1:43 AM, "Bernard Vatant" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We've been using Jira at home (Mondeca) both for software development/bug > tracking and follow-up of customers projects, and are quite happy with it. > > Bernard > > 2012/1/8 Baden Hughes <[log in to unmask]> > >> There are a gazillion of these things. I'm suprised DCMI doesn't have >> one actually. >> >> Jira (from Atlassian) is IMHO the pick of the bunch (and free software >> for open source / standards kinda projects), but RoundUp works pretty >> good. >> >> A lot of these tools are designed with a particular process or subject >> matter in mind (eg software development), tracker is different because >> its document centric, not so much code centric, and that strikes me as >> the kind of thing we want. >> >> Baden >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Thomas Baker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:39:08PM +0100, Antoine Isaac wrote: >> >> That's quite many things, maybe some splitting would help. Btw wasn't >> there talks about an issue tracker? >> > >> > I agree. This is getting urgent. Can anyone out there help? >> > >> > There is a nice wiki page about issue tracking at W3C [1]. Tracker is >> great, >> > but it is only available for use by W3C working groups [2]. The classic >> > Bugzilla is mentioned but characterized as "kind of a double-edged >> sword in >> > that it provides very powerful tracking and query features for those >> who are >> > willing to take the time to understand how it works, but it can be a bit >> > overwhelming and confusing for those who have not had opportunity to >> work with >> > bug/issue tracking systems before or are not willing to take the time >> to read >> > the documentation and understand how to use it" [3]. >> > >> > Also mentioned in [1] is RoundUp [4] -- a ten-year-old Python project, >> used to >> > track Python and IETF projects, which I hear is easy to install and >> easier to >> > use than Bugzilla. >> > >> > I see in my notes that someone once suggested Assembla [5] -- a >> cloud-based >> > service to which DCMI would need to subscribe. >> > >> > If anyone here can testify to the usability (and easy-installability) of >> > RoundUp, I'd be inclined to go with a system that is included with the >> rest of >> > the DCMI Web archive. >> > >> > Suggestions, please! >> > >> > Tom >> > >> > [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/TrackingIssues >> > [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/ >> > [3] http://www.bugzilla.org/ >> > [4] http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ >> > [5] http://www.assembla.com/ >> > >> > -- >> > Tom Baker <[log in to unmask]> >> > > > > -- > *Bernard Vatant > * > Vocabularies & Data Engineering > Tel : + 33 (0)9 71 48 84 59 > Skype : bernard.vatant > Linked Open Vocabularies <http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov> > > -------------------------------------------------------- > *Mondeca** ** * > 3 cité Nollez 75018 Paris, France > www.mondeca.com > Follow us on Twitter : @mondecanews <http://twitter.com/#%21/mondecanews> > >