On 7/30/19 5:14 AM, Dirk Kutscher wrote: > On 29 Jul 2019, at 22:30, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> The IETF rule is still that consensus is established on the mailing list, so it's clear that what happens on GitHub is not definitive - it's just a tool, which we can use for convenience as long as it remains convenient. > > > A git repo is IMO useful for many things in IETF/IRTF work processes (version control, collaborative editing, project directory synchronization, issue tracking etc.). In the groups I am co-chairing, I haven’t used GitHub.com as much as we possibly could have, because we didn’t want to introduce too many dependencies on IETF-external platforms. > > If we think it’s generally useful (I think it is), should we consider including a self-maintained gitlab server in the tools collections (and use the data tracker login for that)? > +1, if only because then the IETF will be able to keep in its archives most of the discussions (including the ones that happened outside the mailing-lists) related to the creation of a standard, for IPR purposes. -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: https://marc.petit-huguenin.org Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petithug
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