Re: [Audio WG] Move to GitHub?

Weird.  Now it worked.


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>
>> That link gives me:
>>
>
> This one?
> http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://raw.github.com/WebAudio/web-midi-api/master/specification.html
>
> Weird. It works for me (TM) on every device, browser and internet
> connection I tried.
>
>
>> Error: Cannot load file
>> https://raw.github.com/WebAudio/web-midi-api/master/specification.html
>>
>> gh-pages are handy, but they're a branch, which is kind of a pain.
>>
>
> Yeah, without a post-receive hook or something it would be annoying to
> have to maintain two branches that would contain pretty much identical
> info. But that link *should* work, and if not, a bug should probably be
> filed against GH.
>
> Cheers,
> Jussi
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
>> jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 26 Dec 2012, at 20:45, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Using a gh-pages branch on GH can serve the same purpose as it provides
>>>> a stable link.
>>>>
>>>> That avoids duplication of docs on hg and GH and should keep everyone
>>>> happy. It's a kinda similar model to what the HTMLWG uses with their "HTML
>>>> Nightly" builds.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, in the README there's a link to the consistently updated
>>> preview of the latest master document. No need for gh-pages or anything.
>>> This should serve the same purpose and I think we should change the HG
>>> document to a page that says that the latest editor's draft has moved to
>>> the new URL.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jussi
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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