On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Priyanka Dhanda
<pdhanda(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Guillaume and Naoko have expressed a need for a Project Management Tool
and I though it would be good to try use a tracker with some project
management functionality or integrates easily with some project
management tool.
Anyone tried FogBugz, Joel Spolsky's baby? I'm so curious... although
it's
commercial software, who knows, you might get a discount or even a freebie.
The historical position has been that absolutely nothing goes into the
WMF software pool unless it is open source. As I recall, the only
recognized exception was the closed source firmware running the
routers at the server farm. By that standard, even a freebie is not
good enough if the system is closed source.
However, my recollection is based on discussions years ago. On
searching, I couldn't find any policy forbidding closed source
software (is there one?). So, it is possible that closed source might
be looked on as a more acceptable possibility for some functions now
(though I wouldn't bet on it).
-Robert Rohde