I agree with this. Providing support for GitHub for all projects makes it easier for everyone to contribute and follow up the project.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:48 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > > As many are aware, Infra has been rolling out a new service that allows > projects to leverage git repositories dually hosted on github and ASF git > repositories, commonly known as gitbox. This effectively allows a project > to commit directly to Github and have those commits reflect back on the ASF > side. > > This has been especially useful to a number of projects, since the github > interface gives many options for managing repositories. I've recently also > asked infra to open it up to allow any IPMC member to request a gitbox > repository for any approved podling that is using gitbox. Podlings I think > have found this useful, since many of them come from a github background. > They like using the tool and having it available for all to use. > > So with that said, I want to propose some broad incubator wide policies for > gitbox. I'd like to propose that gitbox usage is approved for all > podlings, there is nothing to inhibit a podling to request a gitbox > repository and as long as a podling feels the need to use gitbox, like they > would any other tool that we can integrate with, they should be free to use > it without any additional approvals required. > > So please let me know your thoughts. If I don't hear any -1's I plan to > submit an infra ticket early next week to enable the access for all > approved podlings. Please note that your first conversion may need some > lead time with infra. > > Regards, > > John >
