Re: [Ietf-and-github] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-git-using-github-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:59 PM Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:41 PM Salz, Rich
> <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> >
> > >    Personally I would rather see this document switch to informational
> and move forward with publication. I don’t think the label “BCP” makes much
> of a difference, the point is just to document practices to make it easier
> for IETF WGs to get their work done. I would be curious what the WG thinks.
> >
> > We do think this is the best ways to do things, but if the BCP label has
> people tied up in knots, it's better to publish than delay and be right.  I
> can live with informational.
>
> Thank you -- I would even be OK with just changing to Abstract to be:
> "This document describes best practices for Working Groups that choose
> to use GitHub for their work."
> and leave it as BCP.
>

I don't see a material difference here, so if this resolves your DISCUSS,
let's do it.

-Ekr

Would that work better for everyone? It would be enough for me to no
> longer feel that this is saying that WGs using GitHub is a BCP, but
> rather that if a WG decided to use GitHub, this is the best way to do
> so (I'm still not sure that this really is the best way, but that's
> just my opinion, and I'm OK being in the rough)
>
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> I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad
> idea in the first place.
> This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
> regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
> of pants.
>    ---maf
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