Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

[Steve Holden]

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just read this mail by Brett Cannon:
>>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html
>>where the "PSF infrastracture committee", after weeks of evaluation, recommends
>>using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never heard before of course)
>>for Python itself.
>>
>>Does this smell "Bitkeeper fiasco" to anyone else than me?
>>--
>>Giovanni Bajo
> 
> 
> Fascinating.
> 
> The python foundation suggests a non-python non-open-source bugtracking
> tool for python.
> 
> It's like saying: "The python community is not able to produce the
> tools needed to drive development of python forward."
> 
> Anyway. The whole selection process is intransparent.
> 
> The commitee should have stated "goals" and "requirements" with a
> public verification of the tools against them.
> 
Is there any stick in the known universe that you will grasp the *right* 
end of?

   http://wiki.python.org/moin/OriginalCallForTrackers

regards
  Steve
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