offlineimap.org, dev testing area and more...

[Philippe LeCavalier]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 20:31 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:09:54PM -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:03 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> > 
> > > I guess Nicolas will have to make a call whether he wants that as
> > > *official* home or not. But we can set up the offlineimap.org already
> > > and have people create content for it. If not official, it can always be
> > > an unofficial portal :-).
> > Alright. Well, this is a good start. It'd be nice if it were the
> > "official" site otherwise our effort is somewhat in vein.
> 
> I'd like it to be the official home site, for sure. But we must have the
> hands free to update the content and encourage updates from other.
I'm not certain I agree with having multiple entities updating a single
site.

> IMHO, the best way to achieve it is to either set up a wiki or have
> content hosted in a public git repository.
> Whatever the technical solution is used (you may have better things in
> mind), I would annouce it as _official_ only if the above is satisfied
> (which is probably what you already had in mind too, I guess).
Not really but your suggestion sounds good. To be clear, you're
 suggesting I provide the space but the content is pulled from a public
 git repo. I hope our designer isn't just an artist ;-)

> Side note: a public git repository is nice because it's an archive we
> can rely on in case of problems. People work can't be lost forever. ,-)
I wouldn't assume that because it's privately hosted it's going to be lost forever.

Phil