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

[Allison Randal]

On 06/19/2018 01:19 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
> 
> This email is my first awareness that you got Taiga.io working.
> 
> I suspect others on the list are in the same boat.  My recollection was
> that it went from you troubleshooting to you getting busy with other things.

I posted a link to the working kanban board on this mailing list in
2016. The things that never happened were:

- adding tickets for each license actively under review with an
up-to-date status

- changing the public documentation to state that all license reviews
should be submitted there

- posting the mailing list to say that all future review comments should
go there

Those weren't action items on my plate, they were on someone else's
plate. So when I say it was never used, I don't just mean by mailing
list participants, I also mean by board members and OSI staff. :)

Having an unused tool sitting somewhere doesn't really improve the
process. Any process, with or without a tool to support it, requires
human effort to keep it moving. Before we pick a tool, we need to start
with a more fundamental question of who is willing to take a "core" role
on gardening what comes into the tool, approving PRs, clearing out dead
tickets, etc, etc.

> Is Taiga still available to us?  Can we try it?

I looked for it as I was posting earlier, but the old link gave a 404
error. In the April board meeting we actively decided to stop trying to
use Taiga for OSI internal task tracking (again, because no one was
using it), so it's likely that someone cleaning up the old internal OSI
Taiga boards also deleted the one for License Review. (And, no one
noticed, because no one was using it.)

Allison