On 06/22/2017 04:33 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Sean Dague wrote: >> [...] >> I think even if it was only solvable on github, and not cgit, it would >> help a lot. The idea of using github project tags and pinning suggested >> by Lauren seems great to me. >> >> If we replicated the pinning on github.com/openstack to "popular >> projects" here - https://www.openstack.org/software/, and then even just >> start with the tags as defined in governance - >> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/index.html it would >> go a long way. >> >> I think where the conversation is breaking down is realizing that >> different people process the information we put out there in different >> ways, and different things lock in and make sense to them. Lots of >> people are trained to perceive github structure as meaningful, because >> it is 98% of the time. As such I'd still also like to see us using that >> structure well, and mirroring only things we tag as official to >> github.com/openstack, and the rest to /openstack-ecosystem or something. >> >> Even if that's flat inside our gerrit and cgit environment. > > I would even question the need for us to mirror the rest. Those are > hosted projects, if they want presence on GitHub they would certainly > welcome the idea of setting up an organization for their project. I > wouldn't be shocked to find a fuel-ccp or a stacktach GitHub org. And if > they don't care about their GitHub presence, then just don't do > anything. I'm not sure why we would make that choice for us. > > Jeremy is right that the GitHub mirroring goes beyond an infrastructure > service: it's a marketing exercise, an online presence more than a > technical need. As such it needs to be curated, and us doing that for > "projects that are not official but merely hosted" is an anti-feature. > No real value for the hosted project, and extra confusion as a result.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. I'd be totally fine only mirroring official projects. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev