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

[Allison Randal]

On 06/19/2018 03:58 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
> 
> 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.

I definitely encourage you to try it out.

I use Taiga for all my personal projects, and I really like it. But...
I'm not the best advocate because even there I forget to use it, and
rely instead on a lame text file TODO list that I keep telling myself is
only "temporary" storage for notes until I add them to Taiga. :)

> 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.

Taiga doesn't have any features like that, so it could be useful for the
overall status and workflow tracking, and could track comments as
tickets, but that's about all.

It would be possible to use Taiga for an overview, and a git repository
for license text review. But, both GitLab and GitHub offer kanban-like
project boards, so it would probably make more sense to use the
integrated features in one tool.


I also favor open source tools, and avoiding having the OSI self-host
anything on very limited staff and volunteer time. I'm still hopeful
that GitHub may release their full source code, since so far the only
reasons they've given for not releasing it are that it's "not useful,
just a bunch of glue code". We'll see. In the meantime, I'd be more
favorably inclined toward GitLab for this. I place the bar of open
source principles higher for this than I might for other things, because
it will become a *required* tool for anyone who wants to interface with
the License Review process, and that process should be inclusive for
people with a strong stance on software freedom.

Allison