Re: [Audio WG] Move to GitHub?

Of course, this does mean we lose having a consistently-updated public
editor's draft that is directly navigable (i.e.
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/midi/specification.html).  Should
we upload occasional editor drafts there?


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:

> OK.  I'm going to attack a few of our bugs today, so I'll work in there.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm generally okay either way - I'd be happy to dump Mercurial, since
>>> this is the only project I use Hg for, and am much more comfortable using
>>> Github - although the issues are a lot less powerful, I don't think we
>>> necessarily need that power for this project.  Obviously, I'd want it in an
>>> organization that the editors can check directly into.
>>>
>>
>> Like said, Marcos already created such an org and you're a member in it.
>> :) Also, I just converted our Hg repo to git and cherry-picked the Web MIDI
>> API spec, so I have created a repo to the WebAudio org, preserving the
>> history of the Web MIDI spec, but nothing else:
>> https://github.com/WebAudio/web-midi-api
>>
>> The issues are still disabled, I'll use my script as soon as we decide on
>> this and manage to lock the Bugzilla.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jussi
>>
>>
>>> That said, 1) we'd need to lock the Bugzilla, or keep it synced, 2) I'm
>>> not sure if Chris would want to do this for the web audio spec or not.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 21:59, Jussi Kalliokoski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
>>>> jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com (mailto:jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com)>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > > Hey guys,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Merry Christmas and stuff!
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Marcos Caceres suggested [1] that we move our projects to GitHub.
>>>> Personally I think this would make things a lot easier, having simple pull
>>>> requests, a nicer issue tracker, being able to simply cross-reference
>>>> commits from issues and vice versa, etc.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > What does everyone think? Are there some potential problems with
>>>> this? I know that moving the existing issues to GitHub would be a pain, but
>>>> perhaps we can think of a nice script to do this for us.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Anyway, Marcos has already created an organization for us on GitHub
>>>> [2], in case we want to do this.
>>>> >
>>>> > FWIW, as a Christmas gift to you guys, I wrote a script that exports
>>>> Bugzilla issues over to GitHub [1] (as well as a RESTful API wrapper for
>>>> Bugzilla, hahah).
>>>> Awesomeness!
>>>> > To test it, I applied it to the Web MIDI API issues, which were added
>>>> to my GH repo called webmidi-issues [2], you can check it out to see
>>>> whether you think the export quality is satisfactory.
>>>>
>>>> Looks good to me… just a few minor things like things in "[…]" getting
>>>> turned into links, but no big deal.
>>>> >
>>>> > [1] https://gist.github.com/4375613
>>>> > [2] https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/webmidi-issues/issues
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> > Jussi
>>>> >
>>>> > > Cheers,
>>>> > > Jussi
>>>> > >
>>>> > > [1]
>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012OctDec/0778.html
>>>> > > [2] https://github.com/WebAudio
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
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