- From: Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:11:08 +0000
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com>, public-webplatform@w3.org
On 28 Jan 2013, at 21:52, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > Hi, Chris- > > On 1/28/13 4:14 PM, Chris Mills wrote: >> >> On 28 Jan 2013, at 18:18, Doug Schepers wrote: >> >>> On 1/28/13 11:47 AM, Chris Mills wrote: >>>> >>>> We could certainly do that, yes, good plan. Another possibility >>>> perhaps would be to put the example on github, like this: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/chrisdavidmills/background-image >>>> >>>> Then we can publish the example directly, using that magical >>>> gh-pages branch >>>> >>>> http://chrisdavidmills.github.com/background-image/background-image.html >>>> >>>> and accept pull requests from other contributors >>> >>> This seems like a maintenance nightmare. Don't we already have too >>> many ways to handle feedback? Is it likely that the code samples >>> will have to change so frequently? >> >> You might be right. I wonder if we can put things on github that you >> can't do pull requests to, and then put a note to ask people to >> provide feedback via WPD instead? I guess this will be irrelevant >> anyway once we get the dabblet stuff set up. > > I'd prefer we not go down the GitHub route right now at all. > > Nothing we do right now will give us working inline examples, because we aren't yet putting iframes in the pages. > > We are preparing the infrastructure to display live code examples in our own dabblet instance very soon, so we want to have code examples in pre blocks on the page itself. > > It seems like extra hassle to have people put examples in pre blocks and in GitHub, and I would prefer we not introduce people to a workflow that we would abandon within a month or so anyway. No worries - I have removed the Github reference ;-)
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