Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:17:05 +0100 Kevin Smith <ke...@kismith.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Cramer, E.R. (Eelco) > <eelco.cra...@tno.nl> wrote: > > So it is very well possible to host a service with the same > > features people love at github. > > There's an assumption running through a lot of posts in this thread > that moving to a github-like pull request model would be a good thing. > Our situation is somewhat different to the typical OSS project hosting > on github. The primary responsibility for XEPs lies with the authors > (Council might suggest new authors for XEPs where the original authors > are AWOL, but a) that's rare and b) we don't have a procedure for that > (about which I'm uncomfortable)), so it's not a case of submitting > pull requests to a central body and waiting for them to get merged, > those changes should come from the authors. This complicates 'throw it > on github, we'll get exposure and patches and the world will be full > of unicorns and fairies' significantly. Well, if the procedure is complicated, then it should be simplified to allow pull requests from different authors.
