[tc] Assuming control of GitHub organizations

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu Jun 27 12:56:50 UTC 2019


Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Graham Hayes wrote:
>> On 27/06/2019 09:55, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> I have been considering our GitHub presence as a downstream "code
>>> marketing" property, a sort of front-end or entry point into the
>>> OpenStack universe for outsiders. As such, I'd consider it much closer
>>> to openstack.org/software than to opendev.org/openstack.
>>>
>>> So one way to do this would be to ask Foundation staff to maintain this
>>> code marketing property, taking care of aligning message with the
>>> content at openstack.org/software (which is driven from the
>>> osf/openstack-map repository).
>>>
>>> If we handle it at TC-level my fear is that we would duplicate work
>>> around things like project descriptions and what is pinned, and end up
>>> with slightly different messages.
>>
>> I am not as concerned about this, the TC should be setting out our
>> viewpoint for the project, and if this is in conflict with the message
>> from the foundation, we have plenty of avenues to raise it.
> 
> How about the TC controls which repo is replicated where (and which ones 
> are pinned etc), but we import the descriptions from the openstack-map 
> repo?
> 
> That would keep control on the TC side but avoid duplication of effort. 
> In my experience it's already difficult to get projects to update 
> descriptions in one place, so two...
> 
> Also, who is volunteering for setting up the replication, and then 
> keeping track of things as they evolve ?

Oops, duplicate send. Ignore me.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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