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

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-08-28 10:25 AM, Matthew Jordan wrote:
>
> ----- 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.
>
I can understand Digium not wanting to spend time, money and effort, 
which is understandable.

Thinking out loud, if the open source community still see value in the 
old mantis data, could we not hand it over for somebody else to manage? 
  I'm sure we could find somebody to donate the bandwidth.

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