{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137/events","html_url":"https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137","id":54020567,"number":137,"title":"Announce: HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group","user":{"login":"balthisar","id":3053246,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3053246?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar","html_url":"https://github.com/balthisar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balthisar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":32,"created_at":"2015-01-12T04:50:44Z","updated_at":"2015-01-14T17:50:24Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Fellow HTML Tidy developers and implementors,\r\n\r\nI've setup a [W3C Community Group](http://www.w3.org/community/about/) at W3C which is currently undergoing moderation before being enabled. I'd like to gage interest and solicit candidates for leadership roles for those that are interested.\r\n\r\nTitled \"HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group\" (\"HTACG\"; I suppose we could pronounce it \"H-TASK\"), once it passes moderation it requires the votes of four additional people to become active. In order to vote one requires a free account at W3C.\r\n\r\nThis is the description of the group that I have created:\r\n\r\n> The HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group (\"HTACG\") is dedicated to the continued support, development, and evolution of the HTML Tidy command line application and library.\r\n\r\n>The Community in cooperation with the W3C aims to become the canonical release group for HTML Tidy, which has been without a stable, public release since 2008. The Community aspires to achieve the agreement and support of the original and current developers to this end.\r\n\r\n>The Community will continue to develop HTML Tidy to adapt it to modern standards; to implement testing systems; and to implement robust build systems. The Community will also promote the continued relevance of HTML Tidy in modern software systems.\r\n\r\nW3C indicates that the group would have access to W3C resources such as a repository, mailing list, blogspace, etc., but further indicates that we might have a githhub repository under the /w3c namespace which adds a lot of credibility.\r\n\r\nImportantly the [FAQ](http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/) indicates that the group gains credibility by being able to claim, \"work happening at W3C.\"\r\n\r\nIf the group passes moderation and enough of us approve the Group then it will become active and we can decide on specific next steps.\r\n\r\nIn general some next steps that I could foresee:\r\n\r\n- Develop a group charter (probably in a repo).\r\n- Decide on commit/merge access.\r\n- Determine a good code-base to start from.\r\n- Determine just \"who\" is \"who\".\r\n\r\nI'll edit this post when the proposed group exits moderation.\r\n\r\nAlthough I've taken the initiative to start this group, I'm disclaiming all \"ownership\" over this group, and am not campaigning for the eventual \"chairmanship\" of the group.\r\n\r\nI'm simply trying to promote a response to the current \"this project is dead\" way of life. HTML Tidy is only dead if there's no community to keep it alive. We should admit that the private forks, lack of response from this repository's owner, and relative obscurity of this particular repository in the entirely of the internet doesn't provide adequate tools to keep the project alive.\r\n\r\nAs such it's my hope that working with W3C provides a new legitimacy to the project that attracts added attention and relevancy.\r\n\r\n* * *\r\n\r\nAny thoughts?\r\n\r\n* * *\r\n\r\nEdit: link, so you don't have to find it buried in the thread: http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#htacg"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/comments/69959055","html_url":"https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137#issuecomment-69959055","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/137","id":69959055,"user":{"login":"skynet","id":139233,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/139233?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet","html_url":"https://github.com/skynet","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skynet/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-14T17:50:24Z","updated_at":"2015-01-14T17:50:24Z","body":"Actually, there's more to it ( on http://sourceforge.net/p/tidy/ )\r\n\r\n- [ ] 222 feature requests\r\n- [ ] 141 bugs\r\n- [ ] 33 patches\r\n- [ ] 22 user contributions\r\n- [ ] 12 support requests"}}