About the H5BP GitHub org

[Nicolas Gallagher]

Hey guys,

I recently put together h5bp.github.com and seeing the various projects

and different teams of people working on things got me thinking: what is

the H5BP organization itself? It's changing quite a lot from just the home

of HTML5 Boilerplate.

It seems to make sense to invite more members and to expand the teams. 

There are starting to be a few projects that need more expert people 

helping out with the code but also the direction.

So if we emphasised more the H5BP organization and that it represented

collaborative development on projects primarily for (front-end?) developers,

hopefully we could get more people contributing and feeling that they can 

influence the direction of projects. 

Stuff like the mobile boilerplate, build scripts, etc., really need external 

expertise and collaboration on the direction...especially if we want them to 

be the go-to projects of their kind. At the moment, we don't have enough 

people working on them and we're all a bit short on time. 

Part of that approach would mean that people working in a team know 

they have control over the direction of a project. They should know that if 

they contribute a lot to improving a project, we're going to ask them to join

it's team. When they're part of a team it isn't just token commit access 

but an invitation (and expectation) to help shape the project going forward.

It's also great when projects get moved into H5BP because it shows that 

there are times when people want their project to be supported and promoted 

by the H5BP members. We could make much more noise about that and 

make it clear that we're open to more projects being built under the 

organization. We could even make a "requests" repo where people can vote 

on whether a project should be transferred to H5BP or started there, to 

ensure we always know people would work on something (and think its good)

before adding it.

Curious what everyone else thinks.

Thanks,

Nicolas

[Andy Dawson]

I think it's pretty useful to know where people are active, and also (for those like me who aren't involved in a lot of projects) who infact to "report" to.

Cheers,

AD

[Nicolas Gallagher]

Thanks Andy, but that's more of a request for the h5bp.github.com site than

something specifically relevant to the future of the H5BP organization.

[Hans Christian Reinl]

Hi,

actually I haven't seen many people answering on this message. That's why I write this and want to thank you, Nicolas, for creating h5bp.github.com.
The idea of presenting H5BP as an organization with people sharing their code and knowledge in several projects presented on this page is a great addition for these projects.

I fully support your suggestion of inviting people with their projects to support them. Paul's "lazyweb-requests" seems to be a great starting-point for this idea (mothereffinganimatedgifs-project). Apart from that making this idea public could bring some more contributors to our organization.

Please let me know if help is needed.

Cheers,
- Hans

[divya manian]

Yes

This is why I have suggested having lazy-web requests move to h5bp but
sadly it hasn't happened.

[Hans Christian Reinl]

Is there a discussion about that? Couldn't find one in the lazy-web requests issues.

It would be great to get new people involved with the projects. If more people handle work together it relieves others.

[Addy Osmani]

+1 on moving the lazyweb-requests to H5BP :)

I think it would increase the visibility of those requests if nothing else, but it's totally up to Paul as it's his baby. 

There's been a fairly consistent desire from the community for somewhere to use as a starting point for 'getting involved' and whilst http://movethewebforward.org/ has done a great job of this, the lazyweb-requests *might* get more attention if it was under the H5BP umbrella.

I believe it might also encourage more people in the community to post requests in there and there's really no shortage of tasks that could be added.

Finally, great work on moving H5BP more towards a visible organization through the team and project summaries page, Nicolas!. I think that will certainly help people get more direction and focus.

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