tag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:/discussions/questions/247-public-projects-phasing-out-new-solutionLighthouse: Discussion 2011-04-09T00:34:22Ztag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/1297772009-04-21T16:07:16Z2009-04-21T16:07:16ZPublic projects phasing out... new solution?<div><p>Hey Matt. We do have plans to reorganize the Lighthouse plans in
the future and chances are that public projects will be phased
out.</p>
<p>Lighthouse does function as support for some of our users, but
if you are working on a social networking app then something like
http://tenderapp.com is what you want for your users. Lighthouse
does not allow for anonymous commenting or non-user submitted
emails. Lighthouse will act as a great primary tool for developers
to keep track of what is needed from support, which is why we built
Tender and did the Lighthouse integration.</p>
<p>You get 15% of your Lighthouse plan applied to your Tender
account.</p>
<p>As far as the non-profit goes, we've usually handled that on a
discounted yearly subscription with former non-profit organizations
who were using Lighthouse. We're still working on Tender as it is
very young, but I will get back to you later today with that
information. Just let me know what you are looking for
specifically.</p></div>Will Duncantag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/1297772009-06-02T10:14:23Z2009-06-02T10:14:26ZPublic projects phasing out... new solution?<div><p>I am trying Lighthouse and so far I like it. However, the fact
that you plan to phase out public projects unsettles me. What are
the requirement to create an "Open Source" project? Must the source
of the project be OSS compliant? Would a project like E Text Editor
(http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/releasing-the-source) be
appropriate for an "Open Source Project" (The guy took a BSD
license and added a clause that shareware limitation code must not
be tampered with)?</p>
<p>I'm considering (only considering!) a similar move, and I'm
afraid that if I went on with such a move, I couldn't use
Lighthouse anymore.</p>
<p>Also, even if Public project were kept in, isn't the user limit
way too low for this type of project? Couldn't there be a
distinction between a "developer user" and a "bug submitter
user"?</p></div>Virgil Duprastag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/1297772009-06-04T13:25:26Z2009-06-04T13:25:26ZPublic projects phasing out... new solution?<div><p>Yes, E-Text Editor is fine. There are a lot of duplicate
licenses out there, and our limitation on the licenses is to
prevent the use of redundant licenses. However, it's not really
displayed anywhere on the site AFAIK, so you can just pick
something approximate.</p>
<p>Public projects can have unlimited bug submitters, as long as
they have Lighthouse user profiles. Open source projects can also
have unlimited project members.</p>
<p>We're only phasing out non-OSS public projects. Lighthouse isn't
really designed to function as a general purpose support tool. We
used to use it for Lighthouse support, but it's messiness lead to
our development of <a href="http://tenderapp.com">Tender
Support</a> (which has an unlisted OSS plan too).</p></div>Rick