- From: Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:23:06 -0400
- To: "David (Standards) Singer" <singer@apple.com>, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Cc: public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>
On September 12, 2014 at 7:17:04 PM, Karl Dubost (karl@la-grange.net) wrote: > > How do you track contributors? A contributor is someone who makes an explicit change to the document (through a PR). > How do you record that someone has contributed without geeky > skills? In the acknowledgements using traditional means (though GH's API possibly provides a way to get the names of everyone who has either created a bug or commented on a any bug, if necessary - not that we don't go this hardcore in normal WG's. ). > Another topic which is important to me (#rustyweb): > How do we not lose the historical memory of these projects? We can have GH send an email for everything to a project list. That would create a complete archive of all bugs filed, comments, made, etc... but without needing to flood a mailing list. Like: `foo-spec-archive@w3.org` > Commits are fine, but issues management and comments, etc, have > no backup mechanisms in the current github. I wish there would > be an interoperable protocol and formats to share those so you > could back them up. Well, the above should work to capture all the important things.
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