[LGM] etherpads are out of band discussion: please make sure that they are documented in the lgm infrastructure!

[Stefan Huber]

Hi Ale
—
Thanks for your suggestion. I agree 100% that we need to save the content separate to keep it archived. 
I'm not sure about your workflow. It's in my opinion unrealistic to do that manually. I suggest that we have a github-repo and in it there is a file with all the links we need to export (etherpads have a export-url {{repourl}}/export/txt). Then there is a cronjob that exports all the etherpads automatically from time to time to the same github repo. There people can get a copy when the pads go offline.

If you like, I can do a setup for that. Just give me a repo on the libregraphics-organisation and and travis-ci will do the job. 

Cheers,
Stefan Huber


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> On 4 May 2018, at 11:30, ale rimoldi <ale at graphicslab.org> wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> over the years we have used many etherpads and other collaborative
> tools to get things done.
> 
> as it has been mentioned in the organizational meeting, at some time
> there is a risk that the pads get lost (in that specific case i
> think that the content has already been merged in the /lgm site, but i
> have not checked).
> 
> can i suggest you that all the content of each (relevant) pad is copied
> into the lgm infrastructure?
> 
> in the simplest case, it's enough to copy the content of the pad and
> mail it to the mailing list (too).
> this is often the case when an email or a letter is composed in a
> collaborative way.
> 
> in other cases -- like the pads that have been created during the lgm
> for the organizational meeting -- the content should really be on
> the /lgm site. (and a copy or a link might be emailed here)
> 
> if you agree on the necessity to keep track of the content of the pads,
> can we agree on a process similar to this one?
> 
> - each time you open a pad you should write at the very beginning who is
>  in charge of publishing the content, with a provisional date for
>  publication (the date can be postponed at any time but the person in
>  charge must keep track of it).
> 
> - short living content can be emailed to this list.
> 
> - content with long term relevance (documentation, archiving) should
>  really be on the /lgm site.
>  please, create a page on the /lgm site short after creating the pad
>  and put there the link to the pad.
>  and make sure that when the document is not edited anymore, its
>  content is copied into the /lgm site.
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
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