[License-review] Outstanding license submissions -- tools

[Josh Berkus]

On 08/07/2015 03:27 PM, Christoph Dorn wrote:
> 
> 
> May I suggest picking a tool that can glean "commands" from emails
> submitted by authorized users to mailing lists.
> 
> This way, in the course of a discussion, you can include commands to
> instruct the system to do things with the content of the email or thread
> (categorize, tag, notify) without needing to switch to a separate tool.

RT can do this.

However: RT is more of an issue tracker "kit" out of the box.  It would
require someone with expertise in RT to commit to building up an RT
system specifically for our use for it to be useful. Also, RT's native
web display ... like Redmine's ... is rudimentary at best.  So we'd also
need webwork so that it would be useful to license submitters as well as us.

More importantly, I kind of feel like that's going in the wrong
direction.  The reason to use a tracker for these discussions is to
encourage participants to look at all traffic on the license before
submitting comments, in order to avoid some of the confusion and
submitters repeatedly defending the same points that we've had on this
list.  And of just plain losing track of a license submission.

FWIW, I work on a closed-source tool which has exactly the features we
need, both for tracking and for inline commenting.  Trying to get the
owner to open source it, but of course we don't want to wait on that.