On 10 December 2012 20:32, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > The holder of the asciidoc organization on GitHub, Charbel Bitar, has
Profuse thank you to him for that. > graciously given us permission to use the organization for the AsciiDoc > project. At the moment, Stuart and I have been made admins. Anyone else > interested in helping to manage it, please speak up. > > Now that we have the space, it's time to decide what to do with it. I'll > raise three uses. Feel free to suggest others. > > AsciiDoc mirror on GitHub:: > > Regardless of where the canonical source code repository is located, I think > there is tremendous benefit in having a mirror on GitHub. I've observed > first hand how much visibility GitHub brings to a project. The obvious > benefit is that you can say "find us on GitHub", which is a surprisingly > powerful. It also makes it so easy to see the activity and history of a > project, more so than any other web-based viewer I've ever come across. > Finally, it provides a very elegant way to share patches (either through > pull requests or just the "forks" themselves). That definitely beats sending > patch files through a mailinglist. Do not underestimating the impact this > can have. > > I experimented with using hg-git to sync the mirror [1] and it works > splendidly. One of us can setup a job on a CI server to sync regularly or > via a commit trigger. > I guess since this looks like a significant point of change, the question of how the asciidoc community is going to operate needs to be addressed. Who manages it and how are decisions made? Is Stuart BDFNow? Does he have time? Is it a democracy? if so how does that work? These issues need to be addressed *before* major changes are made and especially before any suggestions for incompatible changes (see my comment elsewhere). > Shall I proceed with adding an AsciiDoc mirror under > http://github.com/asciidoc? > What should we call the mirror repository? asciidoc? asciidoc-mirror? > > Keep in mind, those questions depend on... > > AsciiDoc on GitHub:: > > Instead of a mirror, can we just switch to Git and make the one hosted at > GitHub the canonical repository? I suppose this is really a question for > Stuart to answer. Stuart, are you attached to hg or would you be open to > using git instead? I've never seen a project that had less participation > after moving to Git, so it seems like a risk-free choice. That also depends on some of the answers to the questions above. > > Community add-ons:: > > Should we offer to host community add-ons that are already well known under > the asciidoc organization? (Repos that come to mind are those listed on the > plugins page [2]) > > The organization already has the Maven plugin and it should remain there > given that Charbel gave us access to use the organization. Agree. > > To address the concern Lex raised in another thread, we could make it clear > that being under the asciidoc organization doesn't mean the add-on is > supported or stable, necessarily. For the time being, only those in the main > AsciiDoc repository are expected to be production quality. Support is > naturally understood to mean community support. How do you suggest that this is made clear? Cheers Lex > > I look forward to hearing your responses and, if supportive of the idea, > ready to activate the asciidoc organization on GitHub and keep the project > growing! > > Cheers, > > -Dan > > [1] https://github.com/mojavelinux/asciidoc-mirror (temporary URL!) > [2] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/plugins.html > > -- > Dan Allen > Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action > Registered Linux User #231597 > > http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. 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.
