Re: [MirageOS-devel] Pinned repos on GitHub

[Mindy <mindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2016 11:02 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2016, at 12:10, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 15 Nov 2016, at 11:56, Hannes Mehnert <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 15/11/2016 11:51, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > > > On 15 November 2016 at 11:39, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > I just noticed that GitHub now allows you to pin repos to your profile or 
> > > > > organisation.  Apparently this has been around since June but we missed it [1] 
> > > > > :)
> > > > >
> > > > > I’ve now pinned the ‘mirage’, ‘irmin’, and ‘mirage-www’ repos to the top of the 
> > > > > GitHub org for MirageOS.  This should make it a little easier for newcomers to understand where to first get involved, even if 
> > > > > the actual activity happens to be elsewhere.
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://github.com/blog/2191-pin-repositories-to-your-github-profile
> > > > Good idea. Maybe pin e.g. tcpip, cstruct and cohttp too, to get across
> > > > the idea of a library OS more?
> > > agreed.  could we use mirage-skeleton instead of mirage-www, please?  I
> > > think mirage-www is a bit too hard to understand for beginners.
> > We can only pin 6 repos, I’m afraid.  Keeping the number small is a good thing 
> > :)
> >
> > Thanks for mentioning these libraries!  I do think we should keep mirage-www, as 
> > it’s the infrastructure that runs the website and I believe it should be made 
> > easy to find from the org page.
> >
> > The list is now (in order):
> > - mirage
> > - irmin
> > - mirage-skeleton
> > - mirage-tcpip
> > - ocaml-cohttp
> > - mirage-www
> >
> > Hope that’s ok.
> This is a fine start; I'm working on breaking up mirage-www somewhat, so we may 
> have a spare slot shortly.  We could replace it with some of the platform 
> repositories when that happens.
I got to wondering whether there's a way to link off to the mirleft and 
solo5 organizations from mirage's profile page, but I didn't see a nice 
way to do that.  Perhaps we should make sure the README for 
mirage/mirage references that more libraries we use are available in 
those places?
Thanks,
Mindy

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