This takes me back ten years to 2005. I was the QA lead at an open source company and we really wanted to use FogBugz. An operations engineer imported all of ou

This takes me back ten years to 2005. I was the QA lead at an open source company and we really wanted to use FogBugz. An operations engineer imported all of our bugzilla issues and we were starting to put FogBugz through its paces, but what we couldn't figure out was FogBugz licensing for all of our OSS community. In the en, I think Joel did get back to us and tell us their product was not a fit. Another adviser replied to the thread below (oldest at the bottom) that Apache also uses Jira. In the end we kept using Bugzilla. From: bizguy Subject: RE: [Staff] FW: Joel Spolsky intro? I second FogBugz being unreachable. Also, Jira has a MUCH more impressive client list: Cisco, Oracle, HP, NASA, JPL, CERN, MIT, CalTech, Cornell, HBO From: ceo Subject: RE: [Staff] FW: Joel Spolsky intro? in view of the FogCreek people being unresponsive, and advisor's instant "don't use them" response, I'd like for us to do a bit more due diligence on Jira. I notice that they have per-server licensing ($4800), with unlimited users. From: me Subject: Re: [Staff] FW: Joel Spolsky intro? jira is java based and requires running tomcat which can be a bit of a pig. It is supportive of open source communities. That is about all I know about it right now... I will look at it more tonight.
 From: advisor To: ceo Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky intro? Avoid, use Jira...
 ceo wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I'm trying to get a hold of Joel Spolsky so we can work out some
 > arrangement for using their FogBugz bugtracking system. Please let me > know if you know Joel and can help with an intro, since my blind email > isn't getting a response.