| 00:08 | <zewt> | well, as predicted the option to stop chrome from wasting a ton of tab space to tell me my name no longer works |
| 00:09 | <zewt> | why does everything gradually turn to crap? |
| 03:36 | <roc> | 2nd law of thermodynamics |
| 05:51 | <annevk> | Domenic: thank you, but I think I should just slowly learn how it actually works rather than doing things one layer of abstraction away |
| 07:38 | <MikeSmith> | annevk: so after getting my environment set up to build the spec, I now wonder why we don't just move the html-build tools directly into the html repo |
| 07:39 | <MikeSmith> | having them in a separate repo results in needing to do some klunky stuff to be able to make it work |
| 07:40 | <MikeSmith> | e.g., in my case I just made symlinks to ../html/source and ../html/images etc |
| 07:40 | <MikeSmith> | because I don't want to do what the readme says and actually copy the files over |
| 08:18 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: I suspect Domenic has it setup like that because it made sense to do it that to run the whole thing on the server |
| 08:24 | <MikeSmith> | annevk: OK |
| 08:24 | <MikeSmith> | it doesn't cause me any real heartburn |
| 08:25 | <MikeSmith> | but that said, if more people start using it I reckon they might run into problems/confusion and post questions asking how to fix/troubleshoot it |
| 08:25 | <MikeSmith> | would be nice to try to preempt that if possible |
| 08:25 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: yeah, I recommend sorting it through with Domenic |
| 08:25 | <MikeSmith> | hai |
| 08:25 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: I haven't really taken the time to look into it yet |
| 08:27 | <MikeSmith> | k |
| 08:32 | <annevk> | Heh, https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/GitHub seems due for an update |
| 08:33 | <annevk> | I was wondering where to document the commit message and merge guidelines |
| 08:37 | <MikeSmith> | annevk: for now, could flip on the wiki for https://github.com/whatwg/html |
| 08:38 | <MikeSmith> | if there's some reason to put that stuff anywhere other than in .md file in the repo root |
| 08:39 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: I don't really want to start using GitHub wikis |
| 08:51 | <MikeSmith> | annevk: good |
| 08:53 | <MikeSmith> | so maybe just a separate file called HOWTO.md or USING_GIT.md |
| 08:53 | <MikeSmith> | (if not in the main readme) |
| 10:20 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: seems like it should be in a CONTRIBUTING.md file as you mentioned elsewhere and per https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines |
| 10:21 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: though it's kind of a pain to keep that up-to-date across various repositories |
| 11:04 | <MikeSmith> | ah yeah, I didn't understand that you wanted to have it for all the repos |
| 11:04 | <MikeSmith> | had only been thinking about HTML |
| 11:48 | <MikeSmith> | annevk: I posted http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32296220/sharing-a-contributing-md-file-across-multiple-github-repos to see if SO produces any good ideas |
| 13:01 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: ah, nice |
| 15:27 | <frewsxcv> | I wonder if git allows soft links to point to a file within a git submodule |
| 16:26 | <Domenic> | MikeSmith: see the bottom todo line in HTML-build repo |
| 16:27 | <Domenic> | Also, I think we don't want to be just moving issues to GitHub without resolving them, as that creates a lot of unnecessary email for everyone, |
| 16:54 | <deltab> | frewsxcv: symlinks? I don't think git cares where they point |
| 22:52 | <MikeSmith> | Domenic: OK (about moving issues) |
| 22:53 | <MikeSmith> | Domenic: the two or so I moved I did so because I think we can get more visibility at Github for them can we can just keeping them in W3C bugzilla |
| 22:54 | <MikeSmith> | and those two are sorta explicitly soliciting help from any contributors willing to spend some time writing a script to generate the indexes |
| 22:57 | <MikeSmith> | so my thinking was that we're more likely to get somebody volunteering if there's an issue at GitHub for it |
| 22:57 | <MikeSmith> | or maybe you were |
| 22:58 | <MikeSmith> | *you were just saying that we should also keep the W3C bug open until something actually lands for it |
| 23:00 | <MikeSmith> | anyway, as I said, there are no other W3C bugs that I was thinking should just be moved other than the ones I moved already |
| 23:06 | <MikeSmith> | Domenic: about the "Don't require throwing everything into one directory before doing the build..." thing, thanksãžI'll write up a patch to review and raise a PR for it |