As someone currently trying to set up the process for a new podling, this would have made my life so much simpler. We've been working on it for about 3 months now setting it up, trying to glean information from various sites, and trying to figure out which information is outdated.
It sounds like it would be a good resource for existing projects as well trying to standardize on newer technologies. +1! On Sunday, October 2, 2016, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > There's been many discussions recently around what is the best practice for > git tagging, release procedures, licencing notes, web site publishing etc. > > The landscape is always changing as technologies and INFRA procedures > evolve (yay!). Hunting around the different existing projects for > inspiration can be fun for podlings, but time consuming , as well as being > a bit variable as different mentors have different reference points. > > I'm all for diversity and that projects settle this themselves. However I > wonder if it would make sense to gather these things as a kind of Examplar > project? > > I'm thinking of extending Justin's excellent LICENSE and NOTICE example > project [1] [2] but make it a real with its own apache.org git repository > and website that anyone in the incubator can help update. > > That way new podlings can have a quick look, bootstrap and "mutate" > accordingly (as well as shop around other projects or bring in whatever > they had outside) > > We can call it Apache Example, and even do an actual org.apache.example > release of it; natively from the Incubator IPMC! > > So for instance I think it would make sense to have a multi-module Maven > project with an assembly-based source releases and artifacts to Central, > Github pull requests enabled, and a Jekyll-based Markdown site managed with > git2pubsubkub. That way we can showcase the "modern" Apache way without > being all bleeding edge. > > Thoughts? Do I need to write a proposal...? :-) > > 1. https://vimeo.com/171210141 > 2. https://github.com/ <https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheWombat> > justinmclean <https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheWombat>/ > <https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheWombat>ApacheWombat > <https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheWombat> > -- James Bognar
