On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Adam Foltzer wrote:
1. Higher than necessary barrier-to-entry. For the purposes of this proposal, whether we would prefer a competing alternative is secondary to the fact that a Github account has become a very low common denominator for people wishing to participate in the development of open source projects. If we decide to proceed with a non-Github platform, we need to make a compelling case that the alternate choice does not raise the barrier to entry, or else we need to decide that we have different priorities for this effort.
Hi all,I'm a bit of an outsider here as I'm not involved in GHC development (but I am interested in how it goes). I've struggled with my own desire to avoid using proprietary software like GitHub, and the desire to work with those who favor it, so I am interested in how these competing desires can be addressed.
Would the barrier to entry to a non-GitHub system be reduced by using GitHub for user authentication/accounts (like http://exercism.io/ ), or is knowing how to use other software too much of a barrier (I guess that would depend on the software…)?
Thanks, Jack
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