I agree that Github seems like a great choice, particularly if DCMI is
already planning to use it for managing schema.org alignments &
perhaps other similar documentation.
-Corey
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jon Phipps <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'd like to reiterate my github suggestion and also suggest maintaining
> related documents there. Github is free, the issues tracking interface is
> simple, effective, and nicely tied to documents hosted at github. Github
> itself is an excellent centralized document repository for distributed
> version control.
>
> https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
> https://github.com/blog/699-making-github-more-open-git-backed-wikis
>
> Jon
>
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> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Baker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:39:08PM +0100, Antoine Isaac wrote:
>> > That's quite many things, maybe some splitting would help. Btw wasn't
>> > there talks about an issue tracker?
>>
>> I agree. This is getting urgent. Can anyone out there help?
>>
>> There is a nice wiki page about issue tracking at W3C [1]. Tracker is
>> great,
>> but it is only available for use by W3C working groups [2]. The classic
>> Bugzilla is mentioned but characterized as "kind of a double-edged sword
>> in
>> that it provides very powerful tracking and query features for those who
>> are
>> willing to take the time to understand how it works, but it can be a bit
>> overwhelming and confusing for those who have not had opportunity to work
>> with
>> bug/issue tracking systems before or are not willing to take the time to
>> read
>> the documentation and understand how to use it" [3].
>>
>> Also mentioned in [1] is RoundUp [4] -- a ten-year-old Python project,
>> used to
>> track Python and IETF projects, which I hear is easy to install and easier
>> to
>> use than Bugzilla.
>>
>> I see in my notes that someone once suggested Assembla [5] -- a
>> cloud-based
>> service to which DCMI would need to subscribe.
>>
>> If anyone here can testify to the usability (and easy-installability) of
>> RoundUp, I'd be inclined to go with a system that is included with the
>> rest of
>> the DCMI Web archive.
>>
>> Suggestions, please!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/TrackingIssues
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/
>> [3] http://www.bugzilla.org/
>> [4] http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
>> [5] http://www.assembla.com/
>>
>> --
>> Tom Baker <[log in to unmask]>
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