[asterisk-users] Asterisk community services - Old Mantis instance to be shutdown on Aug 28th, 2012

[Matthew Jordan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vladimir Mikhelson" <vlad at mikhelson.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Cc: asteriskteam at digium.com
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:33:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk community services - Old Mantis instance to be shutdown on Aug 28th, 2012
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Is it possible to leave the Mantis on permanently?
> 
> It allows to productively search and work with issues recorded in it.
> Search, convenient straight forward layout, patch download URLs,
> everything just works there.
> 
> JIRA maybe is convenient for the management and developers.  I just
> guess, as somebody must have loved it so it was chosen as a Mantis
> replacement.  But for an ordinary user (in my opinion) it is
> cumbersome
> and unfriendly.
> 

Sorry, but no.  Infrastructure costs time, money, and effort by folks
who have to keep the system running.  You may not always see the problems -
but they do happen, and Mantis certainly complicates all sorts of other
pieces of the infrastructure puzzle.

URLs that previously resolved to Mantis issues should automatically resolve
to the JIRA issue that replaced them.  I'm sorry you don't care for JIRA,
but its the system we use now and its highly unlikely that we will migrate
away from it anytime soon.

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Matthew Jordan
Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager
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