[Rd] SUGGESTION: Use JIRA for Bug Reporting, Package Development and Project Management

[TELLERIA RUIZ DE AGUIRRE, JUAN]

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## JIRA
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- It would allow the community (other than maintainers) to freely contribute giving suggestions to R patches on Packages, or R Base Code , boosting innovation.

- It does allow to attach documents, and sample files directly in the platform.

- Agile Project Management, open and in eyes of the community during the development.

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- That JIRA stops being Free at some time for Open Source Project (Maybe in 20 years from now). So it would be critical to be able to ensure, by some sort of agreement, 
   that JIRA will be ALWAYS be free for R, as a life-long project.

- Need an account.

- ¿Complex?

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## Mailing List & Bugzilla
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- What I mean with privacy concerns is that a developer has its e-mail exposed to the whole Internet, which might be what is desired, or not.

- ¿Spam?

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- Simplicity.

- Accessible.

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-  Easy to manage if you are part of few projects, but ¿Is it also easy to manage when you are part of a lot of projects? ¿And deliver all of them on time? 

-  Does not allow big file sharing, neither have them saved.