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Hi Kata-folk,

In addition to GitHub, Kata development relies on an external service, 
PullApprove, in order to process PRs. This external service used to be 
free-as-in-beer, but they recently decided[1] to change their terms of 
service so that if "people who work on the repository get paid to do so, 
then we need to get paid too". They are planning to flip the switch on 
February 1, 2019.

Our read of their unclearly-specified conditions to apply for a free 
plan concludes that we almost certainly would not qualify: despite the 
project being open source and run by a non-profit Foundation, most of 
the "people who work on the repository" get paid to do so.

We could of course comply with their reasonably-priced new terms (and 
wait for the next bait-and-switch), but as an open source development 
best practice it is generally better to reduce our dependency on such 
external services, to avoid having the project be negatively affected by 
the decisions of a third-party service provider.

Which is why I'm raising this thread, to tap the collective Kata mind 
for solutions. In order of decreasing preference, we would find an 
alternative solution that would

1- be open source, so that we could actually not depend on an additional 
external service provider, or at least have the option to switch to 
running it ourselves in case of sudden ToS changes

2- use built-in features of an external service we are already depending 
on (GitHub)

3- use a free-as-in-beer external service provider that has already 
published clear conditions for open source projects or projects run by 
non-profit Foundations

Thoughts ?

[1] https://medium.com/dropseed/changes-to-our-free-plans-2660423c3f6

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)