Possibility to add TAG repos to CLOTributor

[aliok]

How can I add a TAG's repo to CLOTributor?

It would be nice to list this issue there for example: cncf/tag-contributor-strategy#140

[tegioz]

Hi @aliok

One way of handling this would be to add a CNCF TAGs project (or any other similar name that fits better) and include that repo (and potentially others) to it. It was originally designed for projects in the sandbox/incubating/graduated path, but I don't see any major problem with this. Maybe something like this:

- name: cncf-tags
  display_name: CNCF TAGs
  description: CNCF Technical Advisory Groups
  repositories:
    - name: tag-contributor-strategy
      url: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy
      check_sets: []
      exclude:
        - clomonitor

We could exclude it from CLOMonitor to avoid confusions with the rest of the CNCF projects. There is one detail we'd need to address first though: some fields, like the project's maturity, are required, and they don't fit well for a case like this. So we should probably make them optional.

What do you think about adding a project like that @caniszczyk?

[aliok]

Thanks @tegioz for the quick response.

I like your YAML-driven visualization, it helps understanding better.

I like the approach, except TAG Contributor Strategy has 2 repos that it owns and I would prefer having both indexed by CLOTributor:

• https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy
• https://github.com/cncf/mentoring

How about having a separate project for each TAG? Something like:

- name: cncf-tag-contributor-strategy
  display_name: CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy
  description: CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy
  repositories:
    - name: tag-contributor-strategy
      url: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy
      check_sets: []
      exclude:
        - clomonitor
    - name: mentoring-wg
      url: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy
      check_sets: []
      exclude:
        - clomonitor
- name: cncf-tag-env-sustainability
  display_name: CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability
  description: CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability
  repositories:
    - name: cncf-tag-env-sustainability
      url: https://github.com/cncf/tag-env-sustainability/
      check_sets: []
      exclude:
        - clomonitor

Altough TAG Contributor Strategy might be the only exception having 2 repositories, another effect of separation is that it might be better to not put tasks from various TAGs under the same bucket.

For example, if there's only 1 project for all TAGs, when I go to CLOTributor and click on CNCF-TAGs project there, I would see tasks from TAG-Security, TAG-Env-Sustainibility, TAG-Network, etc. Tasks in these TAGs can be pretty irrelevant to each other.

[tegioz]

Sure, a separate project for each TAG sounds great 🙂

[tegioz]

Hi @aliok

@caniszczyk is fine with this too, so we'll make the changes required to accommodate those projects (the required fields I mentioned the other day). Will ping you as soon as they're ready so that you can add the projects 🙂

[aliok]

@tegioz Sounds great! Thanks for looking into this!

[tegioz]

Hi @aliok

The changes required to make this possible have been addressed in:

• Make some fields optional clomonitor#1097
• Make maturity field optional #311

You can add the new projects to the data file when you are ready 🙂

Some tips:

• Repository field check_sets is not required anymore, so you can omit it
• Fields maturity and category are now optional as well, and they should probably be omitted for this case
• It'd be great if you could add the light and dark logo url for each project (sample below)
• Maybe it'd be good to leave the word CNCF out of the project display name. The reason is that the full name is a bit long and it doesn't fit well in some parts of the UI. If you can consider using some abbreviations that would help too.

Logos sample:

logo_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/artwork/master/other/tag-contributor-strategy/icon/color/tag-contributor-strategy-icon-color.svg
logo_dark_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/artwork/master/other/tag-contributor-strategy/icon/white/tag-contributor-strategy-icon-white.svg

[aliok]

Thanks @tegioz

I am giving it a try here: cncf/clomonitor#1109