From 6f70fe87edd5ea8e10bc2b08b309a928109190df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 20:36:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- HDL_workflow.mdwn | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/HDL_workflow.mdwn b/HDL_workflow.mdwn index 34cf813de..c74ddcd1b 100644 --- a/HDL_workflow.mdwn +++ b/HDL_workflow.mdwn @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ paramount. # Collaboration resources +The main message here: **use the right tool for the right job**. + +* mailing list: general communication and discussion. +* bugtracker: task-orientated, goal-orientated *focussed* discussion. +* ikiwiki: document store, information store, and (editable) main website +* git repositories: code stores (**not binary or auto-generated output store**) +* ftp server (): large file store. + +we will add an IRC channel at some point when there are enough people +to warrant having one. + ## Main contact method: mailing list To respect the transparency requirements, conversations need to be @@ -59,7 +70,9 @@ lose track of them. Create a bugreport, find the discussion in the archives , and put the link actually in the bugtracker as one of the comments. -At some point it may become better to use +At some point in any discussion, the sudden realisation may dawn on one +or more people that this is an "actionable" discussion. at that point +it may become better to use itself to continue the discussion rather than to keep on dropping copies of links into the bugtracker. The bugtracker sends copies of comments *to* the list however this is 'one-way' (note from lkcl: because this @@ -116,6 +129,16 @@ utilisation. reminder: lions are involved if github is mentioned. gitweb is provided which does a decent job. +## ftp server + + is available for storing large files +that do not belong in a git repository, if we have (or ever need) +any. images (etc.) if small and appropriate should go into the +wiki, however .tgz archives (etc.) and, at some point, binaries, +should be on the ftp server. + +ask on the list if you have a file that belongs on the ftp server. + ## server as an aside: all this is "old school" and run on a single core 512MB @@ -123,7 +146,8 @@ VM with only a 20GB HDD allocation. it costs only 8 GBP per month from mythic-beasts and means that the project is in no way dependent on anyone else - not microsoft, not google, not facebook, not amazon. -we tried gitlab. it didn't go well. +we tried gitlab. it didn't go well. please don't ask to replace the +above extremely resource-efficient resources with it. # Hardware -- 2.30.2