Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Backing up Github WG repositories

Hi Martin -

Do you think this is ready to go out? There is still much design to be 
done, but I think that's to be done as part of the project.

RjS

On 3/2/20 2:11 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
> I've started working Martin's and John's comments into the doc. What 
> else do we need to add?
>
> <https://github.com/rjsparks/github-backup-sow/>
>
> RjS
>
> On 2/28/20 8:14 AM, Robert Sparks wrote:
>>
>> On 2/28/20 3:26 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
>>> (Travel might delay more responses...)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, at 13:55, Robert Sparks wrote:
>>>> And one more thing to consider: This whole API requires providing the
>>>> credentials of an _owner_ of the repository being backed up. I suspect
>>>> that means we'll have an identity that we ask WG draft repositories to
>>>> add as an owner. Does that match your expectations?
>>> Now that I understand this more, that is just one of the problems: 
>>> locking the repo every hour is likely to be too disruptive.
>>
>> locking is an option, not a requirement, and it's turned off by 
>> default. I didn't see anything that indicated it would break things 
>> if you didn't lock the repository.
>>
>> I think that option was there only to make it easier for people who 
>> were really _migrating_ a repository to a different place to avoid 
>> confusion or losing information during transition.
>>
>>>    I don't particularly like the idea that we have this tool as an 
>>> owner, but that's less of a problem.
>
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