[OpenWrt-Devel] GitHub and openwrt.org mailing lists (was: Patchwork patch state mysteriously changed to "Not applicable")

[Bob Ham]

On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 20:52 +0100, Pau wrote:
> Please, fork the project in github and send a pull request. This is the
> way we normally work in openwrt-routing.

GitHub is a problem because it's proprietary.  Are you refusing to apply
patches unless they come from GitHub pull requests?  Because if so,
that's a real big problem.  By requiring that contributors use
proprietary development tools, it undermines our freedom.  There is a
good essay about this by Benjamin Mako Hill:

  https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html


The openwrt.org organisers have infrastructure for mailing lists and I
imagine they would be open to hosting lists for feed projects.  Would
the routing group be willing to make use of a development mailing list
if openwrt.org offered to host one for them?  That way you could accept
contributions for the routing feed without requiring the use of GitHub
but also without having to monitor the main, high-volume openwrt-devel
mailing list.

I've CC'd the openwrt-devel list again in this email as I would expect
the administrators of openwrt.org will be present and I hope they might
be willing to chime in.

Kind regards,

Bob Ham
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