The overhead associated with fully distributed development when there is a clear core team is not worth the headaches it can cause, especially since nobody that I can see would be taking the job of patch integrator to manage all the pull requests. Having an editor create a pull request and then merge it themselves into the main repository is just a waste of that editor’s time. 

Only primary editors should have write access to the repository and should be allowed to make changes directly to it. Things that are WG consensus should go on “master” (or the appropriate version-tracked major branch), proposed solutions and text by the primary editors should go on branches in the main repository and brought to the group for feedback. 

Non-editors (like myself) can fork the repository, branch, and create either pull requests or simply reference commits and issues from there.

 — Justin

On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:14 PM, Maciej Machulak <maciej.machulak@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I refer to my earlier email - any comments? :-) Thanks!

Maciej

On 27 August 2015 at 22:39, Maciej Machulak <maciej.machulak@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

It was discussed today how the current process of spec editing looks like on GitHub (currently the spec is here: https://github.com/KantaraInitiative/wg-uma). All the changes are done on this repository, some via branches and some directly to the master branch. It was suggested that maybe we could use distributed repos (each editor would have a fork of the repo) and changes to the main repo would be done via pull requests. 

While I agree that using pull requests is best practice, I think we could do without this for UMA spec editing. The current setup which we have is pretty low overhead and sufficient for our needs (we could probably improve on using branches but that's also not something we have to strictly stick to).

However, I'd like to hear the opinion of others. Let me know so that we can act accordingly.

Maciej

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