Let me know if you don't get a response from the GitHub repo/org owner and I'll also happily drop the gal/guy a line as a flag-waving member of the AsciiDoc user-club.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:43:36 PM UTC-7, Dan Allen wrote: > > inline... > > On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 3:51:56 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote: >> >> Hi Manfred, >> >> On 5 December 2012 08:34, Manfred Moser <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Related to that I have noticed that the github asciidoc name is taken >> and >> > an asciidoc maven plugin exists there. >> > >> > I think it would be great if asciidoc itself would push to a repo there >> >> Well if someone (tm) were to create a mirror repo with the hg history >> imported then that would be a start. >> > > +1 > > Even if it's just a mirror, GitHub provides great visibility for projects. > Many organizations, such as Apache, mirror there even if they don't use it > for the primary hosting. > > >> >> > and accept pull request via github. >> >> (OT slightly) I find the PR interface on Github laughably naive, no >> reasonably responsible committer is going to commit a PR by clicking >> the button without testing it first, by applying it to a working dir. >> But applying it to a working dir is a messy workflow involving either >> a transition via patches or having to continually adjust the remotes >> of your local clone :( </rant> >> >> But the pr process does seem to encourage submissions. >> > > I agree, quirky or not, the GitHub user interface is working when it comes > to attracting more participation. The numbers clearly show it. > > Btw, the "clicking the button without testing it first" is solved rather > elegantly by Travis CI, which integrates directly with GitHub. We use that > in the Awestruct project and no longer sweat over the merge button. > > >> >> >> The same organization could be used as >> > an umbrella for other asciidoc related tools similar to e.g how Hudson >> has >> > a project for all its plugins and so on. >> >> I'm not so sure about this, my experience from another project with >> plugins under the umbrella of the main project organisation, is that >> either plugins are "dumped" and left to the main devs to maintain, or >> that there are issues around stability and reliability of the plugins. >> But being under the umbrella of the main project, it gets the blame >> for plugin problems. >> > > This could go either way, it really depends on the community. We use the > model with great success in the Arquillian project. We don't mandate that > modules / add-ons related to Arquillian be there, but instead they often > request to be for the increased visibility and feeling like they are part > of the team. > > I think it's a great idea to have the http://github.com/asciidocorganization > host both the main source code (under the project asciidoc) > and any other modules / add-ons that would like to be there. Of course, > addons can be hosted elsewhere too, and there's nothing wrong w/ that > approach either. > > >> >> Given the great flexibility of Asciidoc and the variety of possible >> extensions/customisations/themes I think it would be better if such >> plugins remain outside the Asciidoc organisation, but with a central >> place for the plugins to be registered and described (a wiki for >> example). This makes it easier for users to find plugins that the >> developer wishes to make available, but does not add to the workload >> of the base project. >> > > Personally, I think a wiki is far less sustainable. For as well as Stuart > does keeping the AsciiDoc project page up to date with the list of add-ons, > eventually it will become too much to maintain. Better is the > auto-discoverability approach, where it's easy to find things because the > network links them organically. That's precisely how GitHub ends up being > used. > > >> >> >> > >> > https://github.com/asciidoc >> > https://github.com/hudson >> > >> > Anybody knows who is controlling that user name? >> >> Send 'em a message? >> > > The username is on the commits as well as the e-mail. We should definitely > reach out. Has anyone done it yet? > > -Dan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/1bNWGv6ZVQoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
