Re: w3id.org help needed

On 18 May 2016 at 05:31, David I. Lehn <dilehn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Other people need to help out with w3id.org.
>
> I've been handling mostly all of the w3id.org pull requests and other
> minor issues recently.  I'd like to put less time into this which
> means others will need to help.  It's not that much total time but it
> needs to be more than me doing it.  I don't have admin access to know
> who else has github access, so whoever you are, please step up.  If
> anyone else is interested, ask and I'm sure access can be arranged.
>
> There are a limited number of us with direct server access.  While
> we're using the current apache system, that probably isn't a big
> issue.  This is mostly about github requests.
>
> Here are the day to day tasks:
> - Handle requests in a timely manner if possible (email and PRs).
> - Sanity check requests.  Correct .htaccess rewrite rules can be
> challenging.
> - Help people write better rules if needed.
> - Ask for people with lots of work-in-progress commits in a PR to
> squash them into one commit.
> - Use your judgement that requests are useful (seem legit, not spam,
> not useless land grabs, etc).
> - Hit the merge button when everything is good.
> - Fix things that are broken.
> - Ask for others to help if you need it.
>
> A larger short term task is dealing with the rawgit and travis issue:
> https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/issues/394
>
> And of course if anyone gets inspired, the project could always use
> better tooling and docs that might make all of the above less of an
> issue.
>

Unfortunately I dont have cycles free for this.

But an idea.  Could we set up a fund to incentivize people to help?  So
that a small payment is given to those that help out here, and also an
address people can donate.

It might also be a nice way to test the work that some of this is being
used for, and make things more sustainable ...


>
> Thanks.
>
> -dave
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