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

[Josh berkus]

On 06/19/2018 03:53 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> 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. :)

Eh, any of us could have dropped license applications on there and tried
it out.  I suspect that you announced availability sometime I was
travelling and I missed it.

For follow-up, we would need to make it the official process, but we
could certainly *try* it with one of the pending licenses.

> 
> 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.)

Well, Taiga.io still exists.  Let me try it out for a license (likely to
be after Kubernetes 1.11 gets released), and see how usable it is.

A Git* tool is likely to be more useful, just because Kanban boards
don't include any line-by-line review features out of the box.  But
maybe Taiga has some.

--Josh