New candidate JEP: 369: Migrate to GitHub

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri Nov 15 17:54:23 UTC 2019


* Mario Torre:

> Two additional problems with using GitHub are the fact that GitHub
> does not allow multiple accounts, although you can configure multiple
> emails that mitigate this issue a bit, you are still bound to mix your
> work life with your non work life when it comes to OpenJDK
> contributions, I believe this also has an impact in the nice stats
> that every now and then show up related to who contribute to OpenJDK.

You can have multiple accounts, but all except one must be paid
accounts.

I expect that employers will cover this because they want to retain
control over the Github account if the employee leaves.  I know that
there is one exception, but I think it is very much an outlier.


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