Re: sr.ht --- "sir hat" --- alternatives to Github

["Matthew A. Miller" <[e-mail]>]

All,

Please direct all further discussion on using GitHub to <
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Thank you,

-
Matthew A. Miller
IETF Sergeant-at-arms

On 19/01/24 08:23, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 22/1/19 20:31, Hector Santos wrote:
>> My opinion.
>>
>> My only concern is the perception that the IETF is now "requiring" to
>> learn a new suite of 3rd party tools for a single purpose - RFC Draft
>> submissions publishing.   For people doing this all the time, and
>> probably also using the same tools for other parts of their career, I
>> can understand it would be productive, but not for the occasional author.
>>
>> After several decades, I believe an application level IETF online RFC
>> publishing tool should be available.  In the past, I used XML2RFC (a
>> java app) to outline, produce and publish my drafts. Isn't this
>> available any more?   I would think a HTML5 version would be doable
>> today, and of course, some vcs would be integrated at the backend.
>>
>> I personally don't want wish to be learning git details and all the
>> other scripting tools and text formats for a single purpose.  I would if
>> I have to at some top level rudimentary level just to get the job, but
>> it is not desirable, and certainly not a career requirement for me.
> 
> Don't worry: https://xkcd.com/1597/  (yes, there's a lot of truth to it
> :-) )
> 
> Thanks,
>