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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]>
>>
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