18 Dec
2024
18 Dec
'24
8:03 a.m.
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Cridland" <dave(a)cridland.net>
To "XMPP Standards" <standards(a)xmpp.org>
Date 18/12/2024 14:50:16
Subject [Standards] Re: XEP-0001 Changes to reflect current practice wrt
XEP Authors
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 at 14:20, Goffi
<goffi(a)goffi.org> wrote:
FWIW, I don't think everyone being equally unhappy is really the aim
here. We have one active Editor, who says they're not likely to process
email submissions. I vaguely remember it might have been processing
email submissions that caused the previous Editor (me) to finally lose
the will, and we've burned out many Editors over the years - so I think
our practical aim has to be minimising everyone else's unhappiness
secondary to being able to keep Editors.
(Side note, I admire Florian's "I care about this so I'll volunteer for
the extra work", rather than trying to push more onto Daniel)
I don't think requiring GitHub accounts is the 'right thing' in
principle, but I think needing everything to be a GitHub PR if that's
what Editors want is what we practically need to do, and the "If you
can't GitHub please mail standards@ and find someone there to help you"
suggestion is pragmatic - at the moment we have Florian volunteering to
pick that up, and if in the future it stops being viable we can reassess
(as with all things).
/K
I don't say that accepting patches by email is
a must, but there
should be an
option that doesn't require creating an account on a private company's
service, even if it's not used often.
I do 100% sympathise. However, options such as running our own version
control, or insisting that the Editor handles emailed patches and
submissions, seem to put the additional load on the wrong people too.
I do think anything we do here is inevitably a compromise, I'm hoping
we can find one we're all equally, and minimally, unhappy with.