Offer a form or other lower barrier way to sign?

[hannahhoward]

Thank you so much for the efforts!!!

I dunno if the motivation for using PR's is to insure that people know their way around open source, but it seems like a high barrier to entry for supporters, especially folks in tech who may not be developers but still play important roles in OSS projects.

I wonder about offering a form, petition, or some other simple way to signal support.

[Qix-]

Problem is identity verification. The benefit of using PRs is that we can validate the line being added belongs to the identity of the person adding it. The current format includes github usernames. I think the vast majority (I'd wager >90%) of the people that care about the contract already have Github accounts.

Perhaps there can be an easier way than submitting a PR (though that's already quite easily done via the web interface). Perhaps an issue here can be hooked up to a bot somewhere, but that's quite a lot of effort.

Not shooting it down; just making sure we don't sacrifice the validity and credibility of signatures in the process, lest we lose credibility and impact of the letter itself in the process.

[drop-ice]

Thanks for suggesting this @hannahhoward !

We’d like to keep most of the signing activity on GitHub itself (that makes this repository more likely to “trend” in various parts of the GitHub.com user interface), but there are ways to make this more accessible.

For now, we’d like to ask people who would like to sign but are not comfortable making a pull request to please file an issue asking someone to open one on your behalf. (We’ve added an issue template to make this straightforward.)

We’ll also edit #16 to include these instructions. Thank you!

[ctsstc]

Seems like a perfect time for a simple bot or new~ish github actions (add something like /sign that people can leave as a comment and the bot auto-ads them, thus they have to be logged in to type /sign in the thread, but having your own github signed PR is valuable too rather than by proxy. Would also take care of auto inserting a name in the right place for alphabetical order.

[murb]

Maybe you could link directly to https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0/edit/master/README.md, which offers a reasonably easy flow

[Qix-]

that makes this repository more likely to “trend”

Would Github even allow that? Did the dear-github (v1) trend (e.g. show up in the right-hand side under trending)?

Seems like Github would slyly remove it from any exploration lists or trending lists.