[jsword-devel] Bible Desktop Comments

[Eric Galluzzo]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 04:02, Joe Walker wrote:
> I think we need a better bug tracker than bugs.txt, because I bet my
> edits will crash with yours, and because leading up to 1.0  it will
> become important that we can prioritize our work.
> 
> Options I can think of:
> - Install bugzilla at crosswire
> - Install scarab at crosswire
> - Install jira at crosswire (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/)
> - Use the bugzilla that we have at sourceforge There are 3 SF projects
> that we have, ProjectB, J-Sword (not set up by me, not even sure if
> I'm an admin) and BibleDesktop (unused other that to book the name)
> - Try to get an account at tigris.org or java.net to use their
> instance of Scarab.
> - Find someone willing to host Jira for us.
> 
> My experience of buzilla/scarab/jira is between small and
> non-existent. I've setup bugzilla and scarab at work. Bugzilla is easy
> on Linux, Scarab is somewhat harder.
> 
> The Scarab UI is probably better than the Buzilla one, and from the
> Jira demo, it is way ahead of both of them.

We've used both Bugzilla and Scarab, and we now use Jira (for some
open-source projects that our company has created).  Bugzilla's default
UI is bad (although it can be made prettier -- see, e.g.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/), and it's not Java-friendly (and thus kinda
hard to install).  Scarab has bad "social" problems -- e.g. it's been in
"beta" for ages, and while new features are added pretty frequently, the
developers refuse to fix obvious bugs and shortcomings ("yes, we know
that's been there for two years -- we don't care, you fix it!") and
routinely flame other developers and users.

Jira is free to open-source projects, and has a nice UI.  Also, the
developers seem to be pretty friendly.  It's pure Java, so is very easy
to set up (just a war file); the configuration is pretty easy too.

    - Eric