Thank you Aaron.
We will continue using feature branch in ASF repo for development of PR clear
work.
Yes, we can manage access to personal/non-ASF hosted forks but I do not have
the list of people to set that up. This is automatic default when we create in
ASF repositories.
Also, I am vehemently against using one person's personal fork for massive
collaborative open source feature development involving the entire Geode
Community. Every collaborator should have the same rights on the source code
rather than a gatekeeper.
But again, I agree it is wrong to use the repo to create short living branches
with single contributor and then not cleaning up after the branch is merged.
Regards
Naba
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Lindsey <alind...@vmware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:50 AM
To: dev@geode.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Stop using the Geode Repository for Feature/WIP
Branches
I'm on board with using forks — the exception being Naba's use case for long
running feature branches where developers actually want to open a PR into the
branch
________________________________________
From: Bruce Schuchardt <bru...@vmware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:23 AM
To: dev@geode.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Stop using the Geode Repository for Feature/WIP
Branches
Jake, you make some good points that I hadn't considered before.
On 6/2/20, 3:42 PM, "Jacob Barrett" <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
I know this has been brought up multiple times without resolution. I want
us resolve to ban the use of Geode repository for work in progress, feature
branches, or any other branches that are not release or support branches. There
is no reason given the nature of GitHub why you can’t fork the repository to
contribute.
* Work done on these branches results in the ASF bots updating the
associated JIRAs and email blasting all of us with your work.
* People don’t clean up these branches, which leads to a mess of branches
on everyones clones and in the UI.
* All your intermediate commits get synced to the repo, which bloats the
repo for everyone else. Even your commits you rebase over and force push are
left in the repo. When you delete your branch these commits are not removed.
There is no way for us to prune unreferenced commits. Nobody else needs your
commits outside of what was merged to a production branch.
If anyone has a use case for working directly from Geode repo that can’t
work from a fork please post it here so we can resolve.
Thanks,
Jake
