Georg Brandl wrote:
What I answered to was:
""" from what I can tell, no big contemporary Python project use Atlassian. they all use Trac. there are thousands of Python developers out there that are used to working with Trac.
I'm obviously missing something here. """
I'm not saying it's out of the question for Python, I'm saying that it's out of the question for most open-source projects, which don't have the money or don't want to spend the money on a mere bug tracker, and that this may be the reason that Jira isn't used widely by Python programmers.
Like most commercial tool providers that complete on a market full of open source tools of various quality, Atlassian offers free licenses to non-profits and established open source projects: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp#nonprofit Perforce (who makes an excellent version management system) is another example. We went through very similar discussions back when we moved python from cvs to svn, and ended up picking an open source system that was good enough over a better commercial product, despite the fact that several key developers had extensive experiences of using perforce for large-scale projects. And that's the whole point, of course: if something is widely used by others and is good enough, a project needs very good reasons to pick another tool. </F>