From hurmo.hi14 at erine.eu  Tue Jun 25 00:44:38 2024
From: hurmo.hi14 at erine.eu (hurmo.hi14 at erine.eu)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:44:38 -0400
Subject: Need Help Convincing My Community
Message-ID: <1848544.YD5drVlXrg@ultramarine>

Hello,

I am a member of the OpenWRT community (a member organization of the SFC), and 
I need your help convincing my fellow members to more carefully consider 
switching away from GitHub.

I'm not a significant contributor in any way, but every time I've brought up 
this concern within the community at any level within the last few years, it's 
been immediately shut down either with the equivalent of "if you don't like 
GitHub you can just leave", or minimizing any and all concerns as solely 
coming from an impractical or untethered perspective. I've never even been 
able to hear any specific concerns connected to having an open-source bug 
tracker/repository system. At one point I had even offered to donate a few XMR 
from my meager personal funds to offset any one-time costs coming from such a 
transition.

I can provide a couple public links to community discussions on this topic if 
those would be helpful, but my intention is not to disparage, shame, or bully 
anyone. I just need help getting these concerns to the right people within the 
community without ruffling feathers or creating tensions.

I firmly believe given the diversity and stature of this community, that 
switching to an open-source system would bring many more benefits than the 
potential drawbacks and the potential effort needed. But effecting change is not 
so easy when folks see any suggestion as a personal attack — which they then 
feel the need to fend off with the full might of their stature within the 
community.

Happy to hear any suggestions from this experienced group!

In Anticipation,

hurmo