Re: A new GitHub organization for web-platform-tests

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?