Proposal - Provide CNCF-hosted Google workspace for DD docs


Tom Kerkhove
 

Hi,

At the end of 2022 I've opened a proposal to provide a CNCF-hosted Google workspace which will host all DD docs.

The reason for this is that DD docs that are currently being created are stored in that person's personal workspace who starts writing the doc and it stays there forever.
However, that means that person has full control and if relationships become bad or that person passes away the document gets lost.

It would be good to move this to a neutral place; independent from the original author.

Kind regards,

Tom Kerkhove
Senior software engineer at Microsoft – CNCF Ambassador - Ex-Azure MVP & GitHub Star

Blog - blog.tomkerkhove.be
Twitter - @TomKerkhove


Jay Pipes
 

I think this is a great idea, Tom.


On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 3:35 AM Tom Kerkhove <kerkhove.tom@...> wrote:
Hi,

At the end of 2022 I've opened a proposal to provide a CNCF-hosted Google workspace which will host all DD docs.

The reason for this is that DD docs that are currently being created are stored in that person's personal workspace who starts writing the doc and it stays there forever.
However, that means that person has full control and if relationships become bad or that person passes away the document gets lost.

It would be good to move this to a neutral place; independent from the original author.

Kind regards,

Tom Kerkhove
Senior software engineer at Microsoft – CNCF Ambassador - Ex-Azure MVP & GitHub Star

Blog - blog.tomkerkhove.be
Twitter - @TomKerkhove


Scott Rigby
 

Hi Tom & Jay,

A bit late reply here, but yes I agree this would be a very helpful optional service! The question of who owns google docs/sheets/slides etc comes up often in CNCF project and working group community meetings. 

A few morning thoughts ☕️:

It would be important for current maintainers of each project / members of each group to have permissions to add other people as editors on their project/group’s docs - so if desired these can remain inclusive to spontaneous volunteer notetakers whenever needed, and continue to be self organizing in that way.

Directories per entity - project/WG/TAG etc - with the same permissions as above for maintainers, chairs etc - would also be important so new docs can easily be created on the fly as needed.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:05 AM Jay Pipes <jaypipes@...> wrote:
I think this is a great idea, Tom.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 3:35 AM Tom Kerkhove <kerkhove.tom@...> wrote:
Hi,

At the end of 2022 I've opened a proposal to provide a CNCF-hosted Google workspace which will host all DD docs.

The reason for this is that DD docs that are currently being created are stored in that person's personal workspace who starts writing the doc and it stays there forever.
However, that means that person has full control and if relationships become bad or that person passes away the document gets lost.

It would be good to move this to a neutral place; independent from the original author.

Kind regards,

Tom Kerkhove
Senior software engineer at Microsoft – CNCF Ambassador - Ex-Azure MVP & GitHub Star

Blog - blog.tomkerkhove.be
Twitter - @TomKerkhove