[glue-wg] REMINDER: GLUE WG teleconference, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

[Sill, Alan]

HI all,

I agree about the idea of switching to GitHub and Markdown. I tried as Baptiste said to convert an old version as an experiment from Word to Markdown with automated tools, but this produced only marginally satisfactory results. I think the best thing would be to start as suggested with a new set of organized separate Markdown files from scratch. Note this has the advantage once you have done it that all further changes to the document can be handled as pull requests. The online tools in GitHub make it easy to produce such pull request changes, even for beginners, with no further software tools required (although the usual set of git and GitHub tools work fine also for doing this). Of course, there are other ways to use a GitHub repository other than Markdown, but the effort that is there was intended to at least start the conversion process. It can be abandoned and replaced as desired.

I can add anyone who wants to be included to the @OpenGridForum/OGF-GLUE GitHub team (https://github.com/orgs/OpenGridForum/teams/ogf-glue/members) and make the group leaders the maintainers, so that you can do this yourself moving on. We are trying to modernize OGF support for working groups and move to using GitHub for group support, so this would be very desirable from our point of view. Please let us know of anything we can do to make this option more workable for the group and attractive.

Several of you may already have invitations pending to join this group, so please check your GitHub accounts. Others who want to join, please send me your GitHub account IDs to make it easier to find and add you.

Alan

On Nov 12, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Baptiste Grenier <baptiste.grenier at egi.eu<mailto:baptiste.grenier at egi.eu>> wrote:

Hi,
Thanks all for the feedback and the meeting.

I've been looking at changing the sharing of the glue2.1-specification file in Sharepoint but it requires to change the link (!!) so the old link was removed. I can invite people to use the new one but...

I've also enabled change tracking (via the Desktop version, no other choice (!!!)), but it's not very friendly, changes are not shown directly in the page it seems:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/can-i-use-track-changes-in-word-online-9016b7f8-b864-458f-ba45-183049f90bd8

```
You can’t see tracked changes in Word for the web but they’re still there. When you open a document in Word for the web that has tracked changes, they’re preserved and any changes you make will also be tracked. You just won’t see them until you open the document in the Word desktop application.
```

That's a bit weird (to the least).

And there is no way to have a suggest mode like in Google doc.

So I'm not sure what is the best way to work on this, sending word files back and forth is a pain, and office online doesn't seem to help much, it's error prone and a pain to maintain a consolidated version.
Unless you have a better alternative it seems moving to google doc could help working collaboratively on this. We can create this doc if you want.  The big question mark is wrt to the formatting that is likely to have at least some issues.

So what should we do? Stay with the semi change tracking support of office online? Use a google doc? Have some github- and PR-based workflow?
With regards to GitHub/PR usage Alan started a repo but it's from an outdated version and it's a big markdown file: https://github.com/OpenGridForum/OGF-GLUE

For me it would probably be the cleanest to have a GitHub repo with at least sections in dedicated markdown files, but output/rendering/theming have to be checked and things like tables will probably be problematic.
And we need to have something usable quickly.

We are happy to sue whatever you think is appropriate but we need to agree ASAP.

We are Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best,
Baptiste

Le 12/11/19 à 15:24, Navarro, JP téléscripta :
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On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Navarro, JP <navarro at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

On Tuesday we need to review Jens’ and Björn's feedback posted here:
https://redmine.ogf.org/boards/43/topics/506?r=522

Jens’ feedback is in two parts, one from ~3 months ago and one from this week.

The reviewed document appears in docx and pdf at the top of the above page.

Regards,

JP

On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Navarro, JP <navarro at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:navarro at mcs.anl.gov><mailto:navarro at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:

Agenda:

1) Review GLUE v2.1 feedback
2) Next steps

Regards,

JP

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