Code Hosting, Development Tools and Open Source

[Nick Coghlan]

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On 10/09/2013 02:53 AM, Tim Flink wrote:
> If we're OK with non-open tools, Jira [4] is another option. They
> offer free hosted and self-hosted versions of their tools to open
> source projects [5]. Atlassian has been offering this for a long
> time and their tools are used by other open source projects like
> the apache project and jboss. I've not spent much time with Jira
> but have heard more good things than bad things about it.
> 
> [4] https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira [5]
> https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request
>
>  So after a long novel-disguised-as-an-email, I have two main
> questions:
> 
> Where do we want to host code for Taskbot and future QA
> development projects? - fedorahosted? github? bitbucket? I don't
> have a huge preference on the location as long as we're talking
> about git repos, to be honest.
> 
> What do we want to use for issue tracking? - This is the bigger
> issue, is there enough interest in phabricator to justify getting
> it working with fas-openid and doing a larger trial? - Do we want
> to explore using JIRA?
> 
> Anyhow, thoughts on all this would be very much appreciated.

Given the long and painful process attempting to get GitLab deployed
into Fedora infrastructure, I don't believe it makes sense to consider
a *different* self-hosted option that is neither Trac nor GitLab. You
want to spend your time working on Taskbot, not maintaining Taskbot's
VCS and issue tracking infrastructure.

In terms of your hosted options, it may be worth looking at RhodeCode
Hosted, since that's a lot closer to normal open source than JIRA.
However, that would have the same doesn't-integrate-with-FAS problem
as other hosted alternatives.

One of the nice things about the RhodeCode hosted option though, in
that where GitHub and BitBucket give you repos within a single large
shared system, RhodeCode gives you your own self-contained server.
This means a bit more work to get it set up, but also gives you more
flexibility in terms of issue management.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane

Testing Solutions Team Lead
Beaker Development Lead (http://beaker-project.org/)
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