[copyleft-next] [MERGE REQUEST] HBR should require the project stands up for software freedom of those who contribute to it

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Fri Feb 8 04:18:16 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:14:17PM -0500, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
> I am minded at this point to ask that the folks who find the need to use
> GitHub please make themselves heard on list within our primary record of
> communications.  The mailing list has functioned quite well as a de
> facto issue tracker thus far and I do not enjoy the notion of having to
> chase down discussion across multiple fora.

This is a good point. I am the one at fault here. 

I have assumed from the get-go that some people would wish to
contribute via GitHub, hence my faithful mirroring of the Gitorious
repository there. Yesterday I made convenience use of the GitHub issue
tracker. This was in response to a rather unique situation, in which
one GitHub contributor put a large set of useful changes, with a large
set of useful comments, in one pull request. (The contributor first
attempted to use Gitorious and found it too difficult.) For
issue-management purposes I began to record individual issues from
this pull request in the GitHub issue tracker. What I'll do from now
on, and until some 'real' issue tracking solution is adopted, is avoid
any temptation to use the GitHub issue tracker and instead use the
mailing list.

- RF



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