Re: [Ietf-and-github] Single repo vs organization?

From an end user perspective, having a single-repo-per-draft is preferable; it means you can easily subscribe to updates for just that draft, and don't have extraneous notifications, etc. The repo itself has less information it in as well (naturally), meaning there's less overhead for clones, etc.

However, creating a repo-per-draft has more administrative overhead. Martin's template repo takes a fair amount of pain out of it, but making sure that things like README, CONTRIBUTING, e-mail notifications to a list, permissions, etc. etc. are set up correctly is not trivial. 

Personally, I'm less concerned about the amount of work than I am about the risk of getting something wrong on some repo and not noticing.

Having said that, I think if we were starting HTTPbis from scratch right now, we'd do a repo-per-draft.

One caveat -- I think there's agreement that in at least one situation, more than one repo-per-draft is preferable. That's when there is a set of highly interrelated drafts that are likely to share issues, and possibly have text migrate between them. We consciously made this decision for the QUIC drafts.

Cheers,

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 1:20 am, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So could somebody with experience set out the pros and cons of
> (a single repo per WG) vs (an 'organization' with a repo per draft)?
> 
> Regards
>   Brian
> 
> On 16/03/2017 18:49, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16 Mar 2017, at 4:25 pm, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> HTTPBIS - all working group drafts are in a single repo (this is not
>>> working out great
>> 
>> yes, we know you have an axe to grind...
>> 
>>> ) and all issues are tracked there; discussion is on
>>> github; materials like agendas and meeting arrangements are on github
>>> too
>> 
>> Also WG home page -- <https://httpwg.github.io/>.
>> 
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