[License-review] Outstanding license submissions

[Allison Randal]

On 07/01/2015 10:28 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 07/01/2015 06:49 AM, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> I'm not sure Redmine is the best tool for tracking submissions anyway; it was just what we had.  Actually, it probably is a a great tool *if* you customize the ticket state-flow process for the license-submission tracker sufficiently.  But there might be other tools out there that get us closer to what we want out-of-the-box, without requiring someone who knows about Redmine customization.

Thanks, yeah, it looks like institutional memory for the license section
of OSI's Redmine mostly died in 2012:

https://osi.toolscloud.net/redmine/projects/licensing/issues

> As someone who's used just about every bugtracker out there, I'd
> actually advocate for Bugzilla as having the right elements for license
> submission review.  And anyone who knows me will know that I am far from
> Bugzilla's biggest fan.   But it has the right layout and people are
> familiar with it.
> 
> Either Redmine or RT could also do it, but only with extensive
> customization, basically amounting to a custom web interface.  Jira
> would also work, but it's non-free, and it wouldn't actually work as
> well as bugzilla.

In that category, I'd be more inclined toward taiga.io. It's still beta,
but already a lot more usable for this kind of purpose than the code-bug
type of free software trackers (it's AGPL).

Redmine would be tolerable, but if we use it, we should separate license
review from other licensing-related tasks. Someone who's looking for the
status of license reviews shouldn't need to wade through a bunch of
tickets about changing the way we display licenses on the website, link
to SPDX, etc.

I really want more than just a tracker, the GPLv3 site for public
commentary on the license was enormously valuable. But, using some
existing tracker for the list of licenses under review and their status
makes sense. Then, if we did create a license commentary tool, it could
be very simple and just do one thing, instead of duplicating all the
features of a tracker tool.

Allison