- From: Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:18:29 +0200
- To: public-test-infra@w3.org
Even if https://github.com/web-platform wasn't taken yet, I don't think it would be a great name given that the intention is to use it only for testing-related repos. HTH Ms2ger On 30/03/18 17:53, Mike Pennisi wrote: > As long as we're brainstorming, what about https://github.com/web-platform ? > This would allow for concise URIs like web-platofmr/tests and > web-platform/dashboard. The name is in use, but we might have better luck > reaching out to that person. Or is "web-platform" too imprecise? > > > On 03/30/2018 06:20 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:18 PM fantasai >> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net <mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>> >> wrote: >> >> On 03/29/2018 09:34 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> > Hi web-platform-test pioneers! >> > >> > PLH and I are trying to figure out a way to improve the >> management and handling of the WPT project on GitHub and Travis. As a >> > consequence, I've been looking at a transition plan to move the >> web-platform-tests repo and related repos (at least >> > wptdashboard and wpt-pullresults) to a separate GitHub >> organization. This was occasioned by the Travis capacity problems >> we're >> > having (we represent around 55% of the w3c jobs on Travis in >> 2018) and ensuring that the people most involved with wpt infra >> > can actually fix that, but there will be no doubt be more things >> like this as WPT as a project becomes more and more critical >> > to everyone's workflows. PLH has been looking at increasing the >> Travis capacity in parallel. >> >> This makes sense to me. WPT has a different collaboration pattern >> than W3C specs do. >> >> > The obvious choice for org name, "wpt", is not available, and >> attempts to reach out to that user have failed. No other >> > 3-character org names come to mind. >> >> You could use more characters? :) w3test is available if you want it. >> (but https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt seems fine to me) >> >> >> Ms2ger also suggested w-p-t, but if the lengths of URLs change at all, >> then certain nuisances like rewrapping comments will happen, which is >> why I didn't look very hard for longer org names :) >> >> > One option is that https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests >> would become https://github.com/web-platform-tests/web-platform-tests. >> > >> > That makes the URLs quite a bit longer, so the other option >> would be to also rename the repo to end up with >> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt. >> >> I prefer shorter and less redundant URLs, personally. >> >> >> Me too. Under the web-platform-tests org, sounds like wpt is the most >> popular repo name suggestion so far. >> >> I hadn't really considered changing *both* the org name and repo name, >> do you have a concrete combination that you'd prefer over >> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt? > >
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