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

"Martin Thomson" <mt@lowentropy.net> Fri, 28 February 2020 09:26 UTC

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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 02:26:22 -0700
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>, IETF Tools Development <tools-development@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Backing up Github WG repositories
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(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.  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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