This I7 Github organisation is an informal group of I7 programmers and their projects. My hope is that GitHub will make it easier to cooperate and work on I7 extensions together.
Our main focus is the extensions repository. At the moment only my extensions are found in it, but I hope many other extension authors will join me. If you would like to keep track of the changes in your extensions, would like an easy bug tracker, or would like someone else to help you fix bugs or even just take a look over your code, then this is for you. Just ask, and we’ll give you access.
I7 @ GitHub is also the new home of the ATTACK and Kerkerkruip projects.
Lastly Isxek has moved his extensions archive to the organisation. If you need an old version of an extension, we might be able to help.
We will welcome any other Inform 7 related projects, so if you have any ideas, just ask!
GitHub is free for people working on open-source projects. You get a paid membership if you want to set up a project with private contents.
There’s nothing on the i7 organization page which says how to join… I assume the organizers just add people. Feel free to add me (erkyrath).
You might want to add a readme section explaining what the group is and who to contact about joining. I mean, if there’s a way to set that up. (I’ve never tried it.)
As far as I can work out you are a member of the organisation when you’re given access to one of the repositories. So I’ll give you both access to the extensions repository. If you’d like access to another repository, or would like to add a new one, just ask!
There isn’t any place to put anything like an about box or a blurb, but I can put an email address and website on it, so I’ll look into setting up a very simple website at i7.github.com as well.
As to password strength… there’s been some debate as to what is actually safer. I think you have to pick rare words for that strategy to really be successful. But then I’ve been using the same password on most websites for years…
There’s a lot of discussion about “good” and not-so-good passwords and passphrases on the net. This is the best discussion I’ve found about how to do it reasonably well. There may well be better ones.
The only other point I want to make here is that lots of sites follow a recommendation issued a few years ago by the US National Bureau of Standards (or whatever they’re calling it these days.) That recommendation assumes that ordinary mortals are capable of remembering a separate 14-digit string of gibberish for each site. Lotsa luck.
Thanks for adding me, Dannii, but now git is doing something weird - maybe because I tried to push before I had permission? “git status” says there’s nothing to commit, but when I try “git push origin master” it says everything is up-to-date. And yet the directory I added is not showing up. What can I do?
