Github for collaboration - quick intro

Hello,

During Use Case TF last week, I promised to share some more information
on how to use github. Apologies for the delay, I hope this few tips will
help!

1. Once can find quality information on https://help.github.com/
2. Configuration for email notifications:
https://github.com/settings/notifications
3. Myself, rather than using email notifications I tend to few times a
day check: https://github.com/notifications/participating
4. Lists of github account handles for W3C Social participants:
  * https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Github
  * https://github.com/orgs/w3c-social/people
5. If you @menion someone in any issue, his person will get subscribed
to it and receive notifications about all further activity (unless this
person chooses to unsubscribe)
6. Github flavored markdown works everywhere in issues, github wiki as
well as README.md which gets rendered automatically when you visit a
repo or directory including it:
https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/
7. As one of the owners of a repository, you can assign labels,
milestones as well as a person responsible for an issue. I propose that
we *only assign ourselves* and for other people use @mention inviting
them to self-assign.
  *
https://help.github.com/articles/applying-labels-to-issues-and-pull-requests/
  *
https://help.github.com/articles/associating-milestones-with-issues-and-pull-requests/
  *
https://help.github.com/articles/assigning-issues-and-pull-requests-to-other-github-users/

Please let me know if those tips come useful, after gathering some
feedback I will add them to the wiki and link from:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialig#Tracker

Cheers!

Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 14:30:37 UTC