Creating a Github repository

creating.md

(This information mainly applies to repositories for EO WG.)

You should always follow the following steps to ensure that participants find similar repositories and know their way to contribute.

• Visit this page to create a repository.
• Make sure the owner is W3C.
• Name it “wai-” plus a descriptive short name e.g. “wai-quickref”, “wai-quick-start”
  • I personally would try to avoid dashes after ”wai-”, but that is my personal preference.
  • If you change the name afterwards, all links to the project will break. There are no redirects. This is final. Beware!
• Enter a short description.
• Set it to public. (99% of times :-)
• Check “Initialize this repository with a README”.
• Add .gitignore to your liking (or don’t)
• Add no license to the project. (Afaik W3C’s licence is not in the drop down anyway.)

After you have clicked “Create repository”:

• Create a w3c.json file with the following contents, where %yourname% is your github handle and %shortname% is the short name of the project (picked above).

{
    "group":      35532
,   "contacts":   ["%yourname%"]
,   "shortName":  "%shortname%"
}