Transfer jenkins CI tool tap2junit into Node.js org

[cclauss]

This is a request for approval to transfer the repo for the Node dependency tap2junit into the Node.js GitHub organization for the reasons discussed at nodejs/build#1921 and in accordance with our policy for transferring a repo.

I am willing to do the mechanics and to be responsible for the maintenance of the resulting repo.

FYI: @jbergstroem

[addaleax]

SGTM

[sam-github]

+1

[cjihrig]

+1

[jbergstroem]

I have transferred the project ownership per request in the thread.

[sam-github]

@jbergstroem thanks!

[sam-github]

Re-opening because there is a problem with the license for tap13.py in the tap2junit modjule.

policy is: https://github.com/nodejs/admin/blob/master/GITHUB_ORG_MANGEMENT_POLICY.md#repositories

Any repository created under the Node.js GitHub Organization is considered to be a project under the ownership of the Node.js Foundation, and thereby subject to the Intellectual Property and Governance policies of the Foundation.

nodejs/tap2junit#12 (comment) describes the copyright ownership.

Apparently the openjs foundation doesn't allow GPL, don't have a link to that yet.

So, options?

• rewrite in js, any takers? :-)
• move back to jbergstroem's personal account, but leave cclauss and maybe some other tsc or build group member with admin access to the repo, so @jbergstroem still gets help maintaining it, but it doesn't run afoul of the foundation IP policy
• ask the foundation for an exception
• ask redhat to change the license, @danbev how hard would that be? the file in question is just this one: https://github.com/nodejs/tap2junit/blob/master/tap2junit/tap13.py
• or maybe there is another python library somewhere that knows tap? or another tool?

Sorry for the legal complications :-(

[ljharb]

if it's just a tap formatter, there's tons of them on npm. does it have to be python?

[cclauss]

Nope. Python is not essential. A rewrite in JS is cool as long as it generates identical output.

Should we be using https://www.npmjs.com/package/tap @isaacs or https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/TAP+Plugin

@rvagg Wrote me that:

iirc we did tap2juint because it reduces the amount of plaintext data jenkins caches in memory, juint gets stored properly in its xml structures .. or something like that .. it seemed to help performance and storage problems, but maybe things are different these days and this was all before we offloaded a lot of jenkins work to the jenkins workspace servers (we used to use the jenkins master to run everything, now we spread it out).

[mhdawson]

This Apparently the openjs foundation doesn't allow GPL is not accurate. What I mentioned is that we might need to ask for the ok if its not one of the ones explicitly allowed by the Foundation policy. (I'm trying to find the Node.js Foundation IP Policy to check).