Am 11.03.2015 um 21:24 schrieb Benedikt Ritter:
Is the groovy project aware that (to my knowledge) the coding has to
happen on ASF infrastructure? You won't be able to use the github web
UI for merging PRs for example, because currently the ASF only mirrors
git repositories from git.apache.org <http://git.apache.org> to github.
Yes, we are aware of that. But as I understand we can still pull the
changes (from a pull request) to our local repo then merge/cherry-pick
and push to the ASF repo which will than be mirrored on github, right?
Regards,
Pascal
I'm very excited about this project, and will definitively be on board
if groovy enters incubation.
Benedikt
2015-03-11 21:11 GMT+01:00 Cédric Champeau <cedric.champ...@gmail.com
<mailto:cedric.champ...@gmail.com>>:
A good answer to this is to take a look at who actually
contributed for the
past 4 years:
https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/graphs/contributors?from=2011-01-01&to=2015-03-11&type=c
and you will see that there are not so many regular contributors.
GitHub
helped us a lot recently to have more contributions, from simple
typos to
complex bug fixes, but one should not forget that a contribution
in GitHub
doesn't mean that the author is a committer : it's just that
authors are
preserved.
While we have a lot of contributors, only a few of us have a deep
knowledge
of Groovy internals. We will certainly encourage regular
contributors to
become committers (we already think of some), as long as those are
following quality standards, take care of important things like
maintaining
backwards compatibility etc... We had more than 5 committers in
the past,
but lots of them just stopped pushing code, for various reasons.
In the end
I would be the first pleased to see more committers, but
meritocracy is
also important. And to be clear, we do not think only about code:
contributions like documentation or tests are also very important.
2015-03-11 20:17 GMT+01:00 Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org
<mailto:ro...@shaposhnik.org>>:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:08 PM, jan i <j...@apache.org
<mailto:j...@apache.org>> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Having just skimmed the proposal, that in general look good,
one thing
> > caught my eye.
> >
> > The proposal talks several places about a vibrant community
and the
> initial
> > commiters are only 5.
>
> This, is a GREAT question! Thank you so much for raising it. While
> preparing a proposal I've struggled with the same issue, because
looking
> at this:
https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/graphs/contributors makes
> me wonder exactly the same thing.
>
> In the end, we decided to go ahead with the proposal the way it
is and
> position
> the initial list of committers more as a PMC for the project.
>
> That still doesn't answer your (or mine! ;-)) question of what's
the best
> way
> to make sure than anybody who feels like they have a stake in
the project
> and have contributed in the past get invited.
>
> There are a few alternatives I could see, but I would really
> appreciate Incubator's
> collective wisdom on what would be the best way to proceed here
given
> that Groovy is a very mature project with a lot of contributors
in the
> past.
> Some of whom may or may not wish to keep contributing.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
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