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Re: Request to move the test repositories to Github

From: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:53:01 +0000
To: "public-test-infra@w3.org" <public-test-infra@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CC48642A.16E07%tobie@fb.com>
On 8/8/12 6:31 PM, "Kris Krueger" <krisk@microsoft.com> wrote:

>There IP and license concerns that would have to be addressed.
>
>http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/testgrants2-200409/
>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license.html
>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license.html

To allow for content to be forked or to pull in contributions?

>There are members of the w3c that won't sign up to just go look at random
>open source code on GitHub.

Browsing the repositories on github and cloning the repositories using git
don't require having a github account. And the repos would still be
mirrored on w3c-test.org.

That said, I'd like to here from these members directly. Hearsay isn't
very convincing, and it's pretty much all I've gotten so far.

--tobie
Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:53:22 UTC

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