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Solicitation for Schedule 70 vendors to support the U.S. Forest Service ePermit app
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Demonstrating Past Performance in Open Source Projects #19

Open td-variq opened 6 years ago

td-variq commented 6 years ago

Question/Comment on the Forest Service RFP

Name and affiliation

Thomas Delrue, Lead Software Architect, VariQ Corporation

Section of RFP documents

Section 5.1.1.2 - Key Personnel (as part of 5.1.1 Technical Quote)

Question/Comment

It appears that the requirement's intent is for a demonstrable past performance in contributing to open source projects. The requirement lists GitHub as an acceptable source of repositories that will be used to evaluable the personnel. Can you advise and elaborate on how to demonstrate Open Source contributions by personnel (key or otherwise) that are not available on GitHub (e.g. GitLab, BitBucket, or other projects) or use other Source Code Control systems (e.g. mercurial, bazaar, ...)? If we were to bring forward (as an example) a strong contributor to the Firefox Browser, how will you evaluate their past performance for this requirement given that this open source project is a) not on GitHub, b) uses Mercurial instead of git, c) and that the contributor is unlikely to have a place where 'their own repository' of Firefox is available (given the development process and approach used by this particular open source project)?

hannahkane commented 6 years ago

We are happy to accept open source repositories not hosted on GitHub, and welcome the submission of repositories hosted on other platforms. For version control, our preference is git version control, but would consider the projects that are version controlled via other programs. We understand that open source projects may have a number of contributors, and would welcome the opportunity to see a team member’s contribution to a larger project, if their contributions are comparable to the work we are asking for in this RFQ. In these cases, the vendor will be required to indicate who contributed to the project.