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

Josh berkus josh at postgresql.org
Tue Jun 19 20:05:45 UTC 2018


On 06/19/2018 12:19 PM, Smith, McCoy wrote:
> FWIW, the GPLv3 revision process used stet
> (https://github.com/greenrd/stet), which is licensed AGPL with an
> exception.  I thought that tool was decent for allowing a wide number of
> inputs, linked to particular text sections.  It looks a lot like the
> comment bubbles you see in LibreOffice/OpenOffice (and Microsoft Word),
> with – IIRC – a “heat map” type feature to indicate areas of text that
> are receiving the most commentary.  That was 10+ years ago, and the tool
> might be improved from the way it functioned back then.

Unfortunately, it looks like Stet was abandoned after GPLv3.  The tool
hasn't been updated in 11 years.

> [mailto:license-review-bounces at lists.opensource.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Bruce Perens

> My preference would be for OSI to use open source tools. It's a
> credibility thing. We talk the talk, we should walk the walk. For some
> reason OSI internal business is using G Suite, and someone's using
> GitHub? As far as I'm aware, these things aren't entirely open source.

So, Gitlab then?  WFM.

--Josh



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