On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On 29 November 2013 08:53, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> [...] >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Stuart Rackham methods: Recruitment Systems EMail: [email protected] Phone: +64(9)415 6259 Mobile: +64(21)115 7168 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
