chairs

Guide for Privacy CG chairs

Git and GitHub

How to spin up a repo for a new proposal or work item

In order to do this, you'll need to know the following info:

1. A title for the proposal or work item.
2. A shortname for the proposal or work item. This will be used for the repository name, as well as the shortname in Bikeshed (for work items).
3. A short description of the proposal or work item.
4. The GitHub usernames of the folks making the proposal or the editors of the work item.
5. If this is a work item, you'll also need the following info from each of the editors:
   1. Their full name
   2. Their email address
   3. Their affiliation and its URL
   4. Their w3cid, which is the number at the end of the url when the editor navigates to https://www.w3.org/users/myprofile

GitHub has a template repository feature which we use for spinning up new repositories for work items and proposals.

Our template repo is privacycg/template.

To create a new repo from this template, click on its "Use this template" button:

You'll end up on a screen that looks like this:

On this page, you'll need to

1. Change the owner to @privacycg
2. Use the shortname for the repository name
3. Provide the description
4. Make the repository public

Once you're done, click "Create repository from template".

We how have a repo for the proposal or work item, but you're not done! There are a couple more things to do.

In Settings -> Manage access, you'll need configure access rights for the repository:

Account or Team	Role
privacycg/all	Read
privacycg/contributors	Triage
privacycg/chairs	Maintain
privacycg/w3t	Maintain
proposer or editor 1	Write
proposer or editor 2	Write
..	..
proposer or editor N	Write

In README.md, make these edits:

1. Delete everything above the # [Title] line

2. Right after the # [Title] line, there are two sentences:

   "A Proposal of the Privacy Community Group."

   "A Work Item of the Privacy Community Group."

   Delete whichever one is not accurate for this proposal or work item.

** If the repo is for a proposal**, you should:

1. delete work-item.bs from the repo.

If the repo is for a work item, you should:

1. rename work-item.bs to shortname.bs
2. in shortname.bs:
   1. set the Title, Shortname, Repository, Abstract, and URL fields appropriately
   2. For each editor, modify or add an Editor line filled in like so: Editor: Full Name, w3cid NNNNN, Affiliation https://affiliation.example/, [email protected]
3. Uncomment one of the Status Text lines. Which one you should choose depends on the nature of the work item.
4. Uncomment one of the Text Macro: LICENSE lines. Which one you should choose depends on the nature of the work item.