Explainer template repository?

[slightlyoff]

Guten tag TAG!

I noticed that Github now supports template repositories; instead of digging up the explainer template from this repo, perhaps a good workflow enabler would be to move it into a template repo?

[alice]

Looks like that is a template for a repository, rather than a repository of templates: "so you and others can generate new repositories with the same directory structure, branches, and files".

I take the point about enabling a workflow, but I'm not sure it's in scope for us to be setting up an entire repository template.

What would you want the workflow to look like, ideally?

[hober]

I worry that the TAG publishing such a template repository would strengthen people's misconception that the TAG is the sole or primary audience for explainers.

[jyasskin]

+1 that the TAG shouldn't host such a template repository. I could imagine it living in https://github.com/speced instead. The content could be similar to https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/template. If the speced CG did agree to host and maintain such a template repository, I think it'd make sense for us to move our Explainer template there, and stop maintaining a copy in this repository. Does anyone disagree with that?

There's also something similar in https://github.com/WICG/starter-kit/tree/main/templates, but it's more complicated due to trying to prompt the user for data to fill in the template with.