Re: [Ietf-and-github] document editing and protocol implementation absent from draft-ietf-git-using-github-05

Le 10/03/2020 à 13:06, Martin Thomson a écrit :
> Thanks Tim, I agree.
> 
> The document concentrates on document production.  Though GitHub is
> probably even better suited to software development, that's not an
> activity that the IETF needs to have such a strong hand in.  If a
> working group wanted to develop a reference implementation or a test
> suite or other code product, then I would definitely recommend
> GitHub.  But that is rare enough to treat on an ad hoc basis. Many
> people will use the tool for that purpose and more power to them for
> doing so, but we don't need supporting documents for that.

In the WGs where I work often times the implementations are referred to 
github.  Many implementations are there.

But indeed there are more places where the software code is put,more 
than just github.

The question would be whether to recommend one (github?), or a list of them.

Alex

> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, at 22:54, Tim Wicinski wrote:
>> 
>> This document very much stays away from suggesting using github to 
>> write software for protocol development. I would argue that the
>> decision on which tools to use in a WG project should be decided by
>> the WG based on needs, etc.
>> 
>> tim
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:39 AM Alexandre Petrescu 
>> <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Le 10/03/2020 à 06:50, Martin Thomson a écrit : [...]
>>>>>> 3.1. What to Use GitHub For
>>>>> 
>>>>> This section 3.1 is good in general, but does not seem to me
>>>>> to say What to Use GitHub For. This is what it should be used
>>>>> for: share Internet Drafts and share code implementing
>>>>> protocols.
>>>> 
>>>> That is in the Introduction and Document Goals sections[...]
>>> 
>>> I think that is not the case.
>>> 
>>> It does say in Introduction and Document Goals that one goal is
>>> document editing.
>>> 
>>> It does not say in either section that a goal of using github is
>>> to write software for protocol developped by that WG.
>>> 
>>> Were it to say so, I would discuss it further. In one WG I am
>>> active I hesitate between recommending github for software
>>> writing, or another one.
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> 
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