[uf-dev] Re: hReview creator broken + what source control do people prefer?

[Ben Ward]

On 13 May 2009, at 17:22, Manu Sporny wrote:

> Tantek Çelik wrote:
>> Would moving from Mercurial hosted on microformats.org to github.com
>> (or another system/location) help/encourage folks to participate more
>> in microformats open source projects?
>
> +1 - We use git extensively at our company. I'd certainly be more
> interested and would contribute the 'microformalyze' application that
> was used to analyze webpages for hAudio.

I also favour github; it's lovely. More specifically, I favour us  
getting out of the business of running our own repository. It's not  
well exposed, and dedicated parties (Github, Launchpad, Google Code  
etc.) provide better tools that we simply don't have the time to  
maintain. Plus, they're far better exposed to a wider developer  
community.

The way things stand, we reserve the ‘microformats’ accounts on most  
of those sites. Github's model is especially sweet, in that we can use  
that account to watch/fork other projects for aggregation purposes,  
whilst the work is done by the original authors. It seems very well  
suited.

I think my favoured solution is:

   * Get code off hg.microformats, onto whatever platform the  
maintainer prefers (Git, Bzr, Svn, whatever)
   * Use accounts on those services to provide service-level  
aggregation for convenient, but more agnostically:
   * Get the wiki in order so people can find the projects regardless  
of where they are. I think  http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers could  
be formatted a little differently to link to ‘Project homepages’ as  
well as ‘source code’, provide short summaries as a launchpad for  
people to get involved. Potentially a new ‘/projects’ page to include  
non-parser code.

That would mean: Brian Suda's X2V, and also various testcases, the  
latter of which most definitely need better exposure and maintenance.

In the case of Manu's Microformatyze, we can get the /microformats  
account to list it.

It shouldn't matter to us what code hosting project creators use, we  
should just better encourage participation.

B