Re: sr.ht --- "sir hat" --- alternatives to Github

[Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/22/2019 12:16 PM, Nico Williams wrote:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 02:51:28PM -0500, John Levine wrote:

In article <20190122172530.GB4303@localhost> you write:

My concern is that IETF business conducted off IETF lists might be
problematic.  We have an answer to that: confirm consensus on IETF
mailing lists.  I'm OK with that.  But I would prefer to have a better
e-mail interface from GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/etc.

It's more than that.  IETF business is supposed to be all subject to
the Note Well which affects patents and other issues. We have a
reasonably well agreed way to put the Note Well on the front page of
github repositories doing IETF work.

If we have random subgroups doing work on other random platforms with
random notices or non-notices, it potentially creates complex messes
that will be hard to clean up.

+1

Let's not overdo these process issues. The original proposal by Michael Richardson was to let draft editors use a source control tool of their choice, and rely on the working group mailing list for raising and discussing issues. That was pretty much the norm before many groups started using GitHub. I don't see how that could possibly be a violation of the IETF rules.

-- Christian Huitema