Contributing on GitHub requires JS and that creates challenges and some are discouraged

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You could use gh issue create or gh issue view ##### -c for CLI

Yes but:

• That is a partial workaround of the larger issue
• Not many know of it
• Even those who know may not use it (due to the added usability burden)
• If Microsoft decides to block Tor tomorrow, even gh won’t work. This means the Qubes community will loose contributors who value privacy more than contributions
• the problem with account registration remains

Your words from the parent thread:

Why is Qubes OS project team so small?

There’s a fundamental misunderstanding here. The size of the team bears no relationship to the number of people contributing to Qubes. It’s an open source project that any one can fork, or to which any one can contribute, by proposing improvements or by submitting PRs. It’s not uncommon to have numerous contributors but only a few core team. In some projects there are many contributors and only one dictator, benevolent or not. More people ready to make a contribution would be a good thin…

More people ready to make a contribution would be a good thing

Why is Qubes OS project team so small?

I dont understand how having a small core team restricts the ability for “more eyes on the code”. The code is open source,and open to review by any one. In fact there is currently a program of code review underway in the community. The core team does not provide any barrier to entry, in terms of making a contribution to Qubes. Any one is welcome to review code, suggest enhancements, fix bugs, propose PRs, update docs, etc etc. Given the recent activity at Nixos I think that an unfortunat…

The core team does not provide any barrier to entry, in terms of making
a contribution to Qubes.

Why is Qubes OS project team so small?

It isnt. There are many projects which work with users making a contribution without payment. You must know this. My thoughts - Some users want to remain anonymous. That wouldnt stop them contributing. Perfectly possible to work on GitHub anonymous and over Tor. The roadmap includes moving features out of dom0. That’s stated over and over. But any one can start contributing by starting squashing bugs. Do you find the instructions in qubesbuilderv2 not simple? They seem straightforward. The…

Qubes OS does not have much users, but a large part of them want to remain anonymous, some of them certainly don’t want to contribute back for privacy reasons

I understand GitHub is a free beer but far smaller and less funded FOSS projects use non-privacy-invasive source hosting, bug trackers and discussion platforms.