On 10/12/12 23:22, Lex Trotman wrote: > 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).
Excellent questions Lex! At the moment it's probably a benign dictatorship. I think your key point is worth reiterating viz ``These issues need to be addressed *before* major changes are made...'' Cheers, Stuart > >> 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.
