[License-review] moving to an issue tracker [was Re: Some notes for license submitters]

Luis Villa luis at lu.is
Tue Jun 19 17:29:59 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:57 AM Josh berkus <josh at postgresql.org> wrote:

> On 06/13/2018 10:35 AM, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> > When did the board last vote on licenses?  What were the results?  When
> will it vote next?  What is the recommendation presented to the board from
> the Review List?  Is the dissenting view still presented?  No clue.
>
> FWIW, we're aware that the email-bases process lacks transparency.
>
> We had a project in progress to replace it with a "code review" type
> tool which would make it easier for both submitters and reviewers to
> follow along.  However, the volunteer working on that project left the
> OSI, and nobody has taken it back up.
>
> For my part, I think even moving to a bugzilla instance would be an
> improvement over the current workflow, but apparently I don't have
> consensus on that.
>

Any particular reason not to move to GitLab? Seems like an issue tracker
there (maybe a new project per license, maybe not?) might be pretty easy to
set up and get running.

(Or, frankly, GitHub, since OSI has already bitten the bullet and hosted
projects there.)

Luis
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