Re: Changing editors draft workflow

I think this would be better than the current process - thank you Dom and others for figuring it out. 


> On Oct 6, 2017, at 5:41 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As you may seen, our current process where the published editors draft
> doesn't reflect the latest stage of our master branch is creating
> confusion and is at odd with what other groups/repos are doing:
>  https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/issues/942
> 
> I have thus been working with the Chairs and with Cullen whose specific
> review needs have been a factor to the establishment of the current
> workflow to try and see if we can find a less confusing approach.
> 
> I would thus like us to switch to the following approach after the next
> editors draft get published:
> * any PR will be automatically assigned for Cullen to review - the
> expectation is that this request for review is PURELY from an IPR
> perspective, not on the technical content of the PR (Cullen can and will
> naturally continue to provide feedback on the technical content e.g. via
> PR comments)
> 
> * I'd make it so that PR can only be merged in master if Cullen has
> approved them (using Github PR approval's tool); Cullen has agreed to
> review all open PR at least the day before the scheduled editors call on
> Thursdays and has offered to provide 24h reviews on request (email or SMS)
> 
> * I'd change our repo setup so that any PR merged gets reflected on
> github.io - in practice, that means getting rid of gh-pages as a
> separate branch, and use master as the branch used behind github.io; and
> make index.html a symlink to webrtc.html rather than a manually
> generated HTML version.
> 
> This also means we would no longer maintained dated editors draft, nor
> need to run the release.sh script. The expectation is that each new
> editors draft would be published on TR as Working Draft (at least until
> we reach CR).
> 
> I would want to apply this both to webrtc-pc and mediacapture-main - but
> first to the former.
> 
> Feedback? questions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dom

Received on Friday, 6 October 2017 23:17:06 UTC