On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Priyanka Dhanda pdhanda@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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