[Oceania-Board] Proposal: policy as code

[Adam Steer]

For everyone, here is the start from some time ago:

https://gitlab.com/osgeo-oceania/handbook

There is quite a discussion about it from February this year [1]

Cheers,

Adam

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/private/oceania-board-private/2020-February/000114.html


On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 08:05, Emma Hain <emmahain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree
> For me, the positive is that t will help get me used to the system as well. I may be asking some user notes on it but it is the way I want to go as I eventually (when I have time) I would like to get more on the documentation side of things.
>
> Thanks
> Em
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 8:27 AM Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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>> Philosophically, I agree.
>>
>> Practically, I am unsure whether it will solve the issue. I am also lost in the stuff going on, and how to track it. But I hate issue trackers, so that would not solve it. Maybe a transparent GIT-like doc system would help. But I do not think that the versioning is what is needed, the transparent, always online exposure is the crux.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let’s give it a try…
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
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>> From: Oceania-Board <oceania-board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Date: Friday, 20 November 2020 at 1:11 am
>> To: oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org <oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Oceania-Board] Proposal: policy as code
>>
>> hey Alex, John proposed this a long time ago and some work was done
>> towards an OO gitlab repository, I believe we have one already
>> somewhere..
>>
>> I was supportive of the idea then, and I still am now, so thanks for
>> raising it again. I prefer gitlab because we can make it immune from
>> the whims of a huge company if we want to, but also not keen to make
>> that preference an impediment. whatever works, knowing that we always
>> risk *something*...
>>
>> I think it is totally fine to gently mentor ourselves toward using a
>> git based structure, there is plenty of help!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adam
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