On 12/18/14 10:07 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for bring it up here Rich. I'm on the board@ list and saw the thread, but am not finding your Allura mention. Maybe it got onto another list or a private thread. If you're able to privately point me to an archive reference that'd be nice. > 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. Makes sense. I don't think it'd be too difficult since we already do this for the Allura repo. It could be a bit more robust, and some ancillary issues may need to be tackled (automating some services, backups of forks, LDAP auth, etc). Anyone interested in working on this plumbing? Right now it's a cron job of a few git commands, tacked on to our site auto-deploy commands. > > 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. Finding a project that wants to give it a try seems like it might be a bit of a challenge, I don't know. > > 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 > -- Dave Brondsema : [email protected] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
