There was an interesting conversation on the ASF board call yesterday
about ASF projects putting a "Fork me on Github" banner on their project
sites. I'll skip the summary of that specific conversation - join the
board@ list for more detail - and go straight to Allura.
I mentioned that Allura has a "click to fork" feature, and that were we
to mirror ASF projects on Allura in the same way that we mirror them on
Github, there might be some real incentive to have a "Fork me on Allura"
banner on project pages, thus pushing our own dogfood and driving Allura
adoption.
The immediate pushback was, predictably, that this is only going to
happen if someone from the Allura project commits to volunteering on the
Infra team to make it happen, and then, ongoing, to maintain the infra
necessary to keep that working.
And so ... back to the Github conversation. If you feel that this is
something that's worth pursuing, I would encourage you to join the
Board@ list and peruse the archives. (Note: biard@ list is member-only,
which is why I'm obliged to not give a lot of detail from the
conversation.) But, also, I'd encourage you to engage with the
Infrastructure team to talk about how we might do an actual mirroring of
some trial ASF projects, and work with them to produce a "fork me on
Apache Allura" workflow and start promoting it as an alternative.
I'd be glad to make necessary intros, but I suspect most of you have had
some interaction with some of the Infra guys. They're all helpful,
friendly, and passionate about promoting ASF projects.
--Rich
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Rich Bowen - [email protected] - @rbowen
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