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

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

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,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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