On 10/12/12 22:32, Dan Allen wrote: > The holder of the asciidoc organization on GitHub, Charbel Bitar, > has 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.
Thanks to Charbel (and Dan for facilitating). > > 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. > > 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. Git is currently my version control system of choice (thanks in large measure to Github, though I do have a real soft spot for Fossil). I only use Hg for AsciiDoc and Blogpost on Google Code, all my other stuff is on Github. So I don't have any specific attachment to Hg/Google Code, on the other hand the current AsciiDoc repo is not broken and the work's all been done. There's also the question of control, at the moment I have complete control, works for me and, AFAIK, for others -- but it's a legitimate topic for discussion. So, to answer the question, mirroring on Github is not something I'm opposed to provided someone else does all the leg work. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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! We just need to be careful what we wish for: there is no intrinsic relationship between "growth" and "good". Cheers, Stuart > > 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.
