Re: A new GitHub organization for web-platform-tests

On 03/29/2018 09:34 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> Hi web-platform-test pioneers!
> 
> PLH and I are trying to figure out a way to improve the management and handling of the WPT project on GitHub and Travis. As a 
> consequence, I've been looking at a transition plan to move the web-platform-tests repo and related repos (at least 
> wptdashboard and wpt-pullresults) to a separate GitHub organization. This was occasioned by the Travis capacity problems we're 
> having (we represent around 55% of the w3c jobs on Travis in 2018) and ensuring that the people most involved with wpt infra 
> can actually fix that, but there will be no doubt be more things like this as WPT as a project becomes more and more critical 
> to everyone's workflows. PLH has been looking at increasing the Travis capacity in parallel.

This makes sense to me. WPT has a different collaboration pattern than W3C specs do.

> The obvious choice for org name, "wpt", is not available, and attempts to reach out to that user have failed. No other 
> 3-character org names come to mind.

You could use more characters? :) w3test is available if you want it.
(but https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt seems fine to me)

> One option is that https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests would become https://github.com/web-platform-tests/web-platform-tests.
> 
> That makes the URLs quite a bit longer, so the other option would be to also rename the repo to end up with https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.

I prefer shorter and less redundant URLs, personally.

~fantasai

Received on Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:17:15 UTC