How to create a FEP topic

[helge]

@aschrijver

We might consider ReSpec or BikeShed , both of which are tailored for writing specifications.

I’ve played around with BikeShed yesterday. First, converting FEPs to BikeShed would require a fair bit of work to migrate at least metadata and references. I’m unsure this could be automated or be done without manual steps. Similarly, one might need to spend time on customization to get a status “Final FEP”.

Second: Using a tool such as BikeShed, which creates a look similar to W3C specifications, would send a message. It makes everything appear more official. Is this something we want?

For me the goal of this Codeberg Pages would be to create something nice that can be used to present FEP to outside this community, i.e. something for people not working on FEPs but possibly working with FEPs. Looking like W3C might led us borrow some of the W3C’s prestige to be taken more seriously, but might come with expectations that we do not satisfy.

@how

I agree with @helge that Codeberg CI could be used to automatically post a new topic here with the same content of the repository and maintain changes so that the FEP can appear both on Codeberg pages and here — with the added benefit that now, new topics from this category are announced on the Fediverse.

I think this is actually, what makes sense to explore here. Can we automate some things to simplify the FEP editorial work?