On 08/06/2017 6:31 AM, TELLERIA RUIZ DE AGUIRRE, JUAN wrote:
Dear R Developers,
I started programming in R just last January, for which I read (, summarized and memorized) 2
incredible R Programming books: "R Cookbook" and "R Graphics Cookbook".
However, I did before know how to program in MariaDB SQL language, and had
submitted for their bug platform previously some bugs
(https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MDEV/issues), which is based on JIRA:
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
On the other hand, R has the mailing list, which is really simple, but:
a) I found it really difficult at first to understand how it worked.
b) I feel it does not fully respect the privacy of the package maintainers.
c) And it can give place to e-mail Spam.
In fact, Rstudio has disabled bug.report(package = "somePkg") command in order
to avoid misuse.
That is why I would suggest that, being JIRA free for Open Source Projects such
as R:
https://de.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request
It would be really worth it to start using this modern platform gradually
instead of Bugzilla, or the mailing lists, for new R developed packages.
This would imply a considerable change to the R community, but I really think
it would be worth it, and would help it to improve and be even greater.
Although I might be wrong, and there might be different point of views which
could be better than mine. However, I do sincerely think that testing this
platform instead of Bugzilla would be really worth it.
Hope my suggestion is useful.
You are talking about R and its packages as though they are all part of
one project, but in fact most packages are separate projects. Many of
them use other systems for bug reporting and contributions. Github is
quite popular these days; many older packages use R-forge, and of course
Bioconductor provides its own facilities.
I think it's unlikely that R itself would move to JIRA, for the reasons
Sahil gave, and other reasons (including inertia). But if you are
arguing that individual packages should move to JIRA, you need to
explain why it is better than Github, R-forge, Bioconductor, etc, not
just better than the mailing lists. I think it will be hard to make the
argument, because all of those have R-specific features, as well as
existing communities to go to for help.
Duncan Murdoch
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