[Python-Dev] I'm not getting email from SF when assignedabug/patch (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 29 21:13:45 CEST 2006

On 3/29/06, Wolfgang Langner <tds333+pydev at gmail.com> wrote: [Barry]

> I'll just point out that Atlassian has offered us free hosting for a > Jira/Confluence solution (plus svn and other stuff we may or may not > want). I personally support this option, but I know (and accept!) that > there are differing opinions.

It is a Java system. Why promote Java solutions for python ? I think there are good python solutions for a bug tracker and we should prefer them.

Watch out for the parochialism! I like Python as much as the next guy (probably more :-) but I'm sensitive to choosing the best solution. In this case I think the criteria should be saving volunteer sysadmin time in maintenance, conveniece for users, and convenience in developer time (not necessarily in that order). I don't know any of the suggested systems well enough to know how they score, so I don't want to side any particular proposal; but I think we should not base our argument on "it's written in competing language X". Beware NIH.

Also, we're supposed to be friendly with Java, as we have a major product in that arena. What if Java folks were to reject a Python solution because it's not written in Python? Wouldn't we be upset about the parochialism?

The language choice should only be used as an argument if all else is equal. Of course, "hackability" of a particular solution may be a criterion too, and there the language choice could matter. But the above response sounded like a knee-jerk to me, and IMO needs to be rebutted.

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