Closed MattHJensen closed 5 years ago
Quick question: Would this affect all the urls of projects under the open-source-economics umbrella? I believe many of us have already circulated the urls, and such a change would be problematic. Unless we redirect all traffic going to open-source-economics/XXX toward PS-models /XXX.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 2:12 PM Matt Jensen <notifications@github.com wrote:
We need to rename this GH organization from open-source-economics to PSLmodels. This involves:
- Indicating whether a project is currently in PSL or preparing to join PSL.
- Asking projects to join a different organization if they are neither in PSL nor working to join PSL
- Renaming the organization.
Any suggestions for how to indicate PSL status from the first step?
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GitHub will automatically redirect the old links to the new location.
Any suggestions for how to indicate PSL status from the first step?
@MattHJensen what if we added a badge to the README? It looks like we can use this website to create custom badges.
@andersonfrailey, I like the badge idea. Would you mind cooking them up? My initial thought is for the badges to read: Policy Simulation Library | Member Policy Simulation Library | Incubating
We'll want folks to see the same information from the github.com/pslmodels organization page, and for that I am inclined to use tags, like the blue tags from github.com/apache below:
@MattHJensen said in PSL issue #67:
I like the badge idea. Would you mind cooking them up? My initial thought is for the badges to read:
Policy Simulation Library | Member
Policy Simulation Library | Incubating
Badges are fine. But can we think more about the metaphor being used here?
We have a Library
of models.
I don't see how either the Member
or Incubating
term fits in with Library
.
In fact, I don't even see how Incubating
and Member
are part of a single metaphor. It seems like a classic case of mixed metaphors. Members typically apply for membership.
One improvement might be something like Member
and Applying
. At least those two terms are not a mixed metaphor. Perhaps we can do much better.
@andersonfrailey @hdoupe @Peter-Metz
But can we think more about the metaphor being used here?
Yes, I think that is a good idea. I agree that neither Member
nor Incubating
fit particularly well with the library metaphor.
One improvement might be something like
Member
andApplying
I like "applying" better than "incubating," but it still doesn't feel 100% right and I welcome more suggestions. If we don't have anything better by Dec 3, we can use these.
What about Cataloged
instead of Member
? I think Applying
is a fine label to have for projects that haven't been accepted into PSL yet.
@andersonfrailey said in PSL issue #67:
What about
Cataloged
instead ofMember
? I thinkApplying
is a fine label to have for projects that haven't been accepted into PSL yet.
I like the Cataloged
term because it fits into the Library metaphor. When books are acquired (or "accepted") by the Library, the first thing the Library does is catalog the book. Applying
fits better with the membership metaphor. I guess, to be ideal about this, me need a term (other the Applying
) that expresses the idea of being in the process of being considered for acceptance into the Library (and hence being Cataloged
). OK, as I write this, I guess I'm warming to Cataloged
and Applying
. Any other thoughts?
@MattHJensen @hdoupe @Peter-Metz
I like the Cataloged term because it fits into the Library metaphor.
I like Cataloged
as well.
One alternative to Applying
could be Under Review
. The reason I propose this is because Applying
has connotation of exclusivity, whereas (I think) we want PSL to grow as big as it can, as long as models meet the criteria. I am also on board with Applying
, but thought I would offer another alternative.
@Peter-Metz said in PSL issue #67:
I like Cataloged as well.
One alternative to Applying could be Under Review. The reason I propose this is because Applying has connotation of exclusivity, whereas (I think) we want PSL to grow as big as it can, as long as models meet the criteria. I am also on board with Applying, but thought I would offer another alternative.
I like very much @Peter-Metz's point about "Applying has the connotation of exclusivity, whereas (I think) we want PSL to grow as big as it can, as long as models meet the criteria". What about "Cataloged" and "Processing". Processing might be closer to the thought behind @Peter-Metz's remark.
What about "Cataloged" and "Processing".
@martinholmer, that sounds good to me.
What about "Cataloged" and "Processing".
Sounds good to me as well.
I like very much @Peter-Metz's point about "Applying has the connotation of exclusivity, whereas (I think) we want PSL to grow as big as it can, as long as models meet the criteria".
Very much agree. I also like "Cataloged" a lot.
"Processing" implies to me that PSL is processing something, and therefore that the ball is in PSL's court. This could give some a negative impression of PSL if they see that a project is "processing" for a long time. However, I strongly suspect that most of the time a project is processing it will be because the project has some work to do before it can be added to the catalog. In most cases the project won't even have opened a PR to PSL's register.json yet requesting to be cataloged. In order to prevent the misconception that somehow PSL is taking forever to process something, what about cataloged
and pre-cataloged
?
I am returning to incubating
as opposed to processing
or pre-cataloged.
Incubating
is a good description of the models' developmental stage, and makes it easy to give credit to other institutions as model "incubators". We can also write that a model is "incubating at [instutition(s) of creator(s)]". "Incubation" is an opportunity to give institutions credit for something (and thereby incentivize their participation) without needing to give them ownership of the projects themselves.
Let's move forward for now with Cataloged
and Incubating.
@andersonfrailey, are you interested in taking a crack at PSL badges? I will add tags to the projects at www.github.com/open-source-economics (soon to be /pslmodels).
I am happy to review this decision in a month or two after we have sat with it for a while, and we can change course if needed.
@MattHJensen badges can be ready at anytime. Here's what I've got:
https://img.shields.io/badge/PSL-Cataloged-brightgreen.svg
https://img.shields.io/badge/PSL-Incubating-yellow.svg
My understanding is we can just embed those links into project READMEs and the badges will show up. We can also change the colors if need be.
I am closing this issue as the substantive part of open-source-economics -> PSLmodels has been accomplished.
@andersonfrailey, thanks a lot for doing the preliminary research on badges. I like the colors, but an option in neutral gray for both (like Tax-Calculator's PSL-cataloged badge) might also be nice. I think the next steps would be to add a discussion of the badges to the PSL docs of the availability of the badges and their optional use in project repos. Please feel free to proceed with a PR, reopen a new issue for someone to deal with later, or just let the topic lie until someone thinks to bring it up again in the future.
We need to rename this GH organization from open-source-economics to PSLmodels. This involves:
Any suggestions for how to indicate PSL status from the first step?