In discussion today on issue #6, it was pointed out that when a CG wants a GitHub repo under the W3C organization, there is an approval process. There was support for making it easier to create GitHub repos than it is today, with the following observations:
It should be easy to create them, but they should not be created automatically when a CG is launched. We used to do that with wikis but most wikis went unused, so we stopped that practice. In addition, naming is often important and so we should not assume that the CG short name would automatically be used as the repo name.
We may wish to create a dedicated w3c-cg organization on GitHub. This might help us with messaging about what is being done by chartered W3C groups and what is being done in the W3C community at large.
Creating a new organization raises several questions such as:
What administrative privileges would be granted for those repos and to whom (e.g., CG chairs v. participants)
Whether existing repos under W3C would migrate to the new organization
What tooling would need to be adapted to the new organization
How (and to what extent) staff would moderate the new organization
In discussion today on issue #6, it was pointed out that when a CG wants a GitHub repo under the W3C organization, there is an approval process. There was support for making it easier to create GitHub repos than it is today, with the following observations:
Creating a new organization raises several questions such as: