On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
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> On 29 November 2013 08:53, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Lex
>>
>> That would be great if you could take this on -- your
>> encyclopedic knowledge of AsciiDoc and your having answered more questions
>> on this list than anyone makes you really well qualified for this
>> task.
>>
>> The first job would be to copy the current Google Code Hg repo
>> to a new canonical repo on Github at https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc
>> .
>> It doesn't exist at the moment: as per Dan's email at the
>> start of the thread, currently only Dan, myself and Charbel Bitar are
>> members of the Github asciidoc organization
>> (https://github.com/asciidoc).
>>
>> @Dan: How do we go about adding Lex to the team? What is ownership /
>> membership protocol for https://github.com/asciidoc?
>>
>> This can go ahead if there is no dissension on using the existing
>> https://github.com/asciidoc organization (there's no
>> intrinsic reason for using the github.com/asciidoc organization on
>> Github,
>> but it has the name and it already exists).
>>
>>
> The advantage of organisations to a mature project like Asciidoc is that
> it allows forward looking branches to be in separate repositories, so they
> are less likely to impact the stable branch, but they are still connected
> to the overall organisation.
>
> So for example if an effort to port Asciidoc to Python3 was started it
> could be in a separate repository and there is less risk of Python3 only
> code leaking into the Python2 version.
>
> Its a sensitive point just now because three other projects I monitor have
> recently had accidental pushes of large clumps of changes to the wrong
> branch, and its a bugger to clean up if it isn't noticed immediately and
> other people have pulled those changes.
>

That's a good point, repos with multiple long-living branches have always
made me uncomfortable.


>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>
>
>> Cheers, Stuart
>>
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