Re: Spec on GitHub

On 19/06/2014 16:47 , Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
> wrote:
>> I would very much prefer that. In the past there have been concerns
>> from some members that we should not build on top of a commercial
>> cloud system. Maybe we can address this concern by a mirror… Or
>> letting GitHub mirror our own server.
>
> I see, seems that everyone else in the W3C is doing it. Robin, has
> this been considered?

Given that git is distributed and that everyone who has a clone has 
everything, the level of concern for just maintaining the content is 
relatively minimal. A lot of people are doing it.

There are stronger concerns about using GitHub issues and the such since 
that's data that could theoretically go away. But the concerns aren't 
strong enough that anyone has been prevented from doing it so far (and 
it is certainly in relatively common practice).

At some point someone will take the time to write a tool that backups 
data dumps from the GH API and we'll be pretty much good throughout.

In any case I would strongly encourage y'all to put SVG on GitHub; we 
should be where the community is and we should encourage collaboration.

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Friday, 20 June 2014 10:16:16 UTC