Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Fox
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Brian Fox wrote: > >> I don't see why it would be any different than if you took that same >> code from an svn patch in Jira. > > Have you actually used Git with someone else, or processed a pull request? > Dude

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Benedict
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > At Apache? There is no IP review process. What are you talking about? Contributor License Agreements are available from Apache -- I think used mostly when a committer joins and external projects migrate in the incubator. Quote from the lic

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Brian Fox wrote: > I don't see why it would be any different than if you took that same > code from an svn patch in Jira. Have you actually used Git with someone else, or processed a pull request? > The point is that there's a threshold > to a code contribution that

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Brian Fox
I don't see why it would be any different than if you took that same code from an svn patch in Jira. The point is that there's a threshold to a code contribution that requires an ip review process. The mechanism if it's a patch file or a pull request shouldn't matter if we trust the committers to d

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Benedict
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> Is there a way we can utilise pull requests from github.org/apache and still >> get them back to the svn repository so we can try this in a meaningful way? I thought any code stored in SVN but developed outside of Apache requires going t

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 02/11/2010, at 6:06 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> >> >>> Those parts are about 10% at the start and end. The rest is in the middle, >>> and perhaps the pressure to fix more things while you are there. >>> >> >> No, I think it's mostly

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Brett Porter
On 02/11/2010, at 6:06 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > >> Those parts are about 10% at the start and end. The rest is in the middle, >> and perhaps the pressure to fix more things while you are there. >> > > No, I think it's mostly not seeing the patches and no one actively > cultivating the p

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 01/11/2010, at 10:26 PM, Brian Fox wrote: > >>> The barrier to collaboration is high here. >> >> That's all I'm saying. The tools make that partially true but it's not >> stopping other projects so it's clearly not the only issue. Maybe no

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 2 November 2010 08:23, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 01/11/2010, at 10:26 PM, Brian Fox wrote: > >>> The barrier to collaboration is high here. >> >> That's all I'm saying. The tools make that partially true but it's not >> stopping other projects so it's clearly not the only issue. Maybe no >> on

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 2 November 2010 08:26, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 01/11/2010, at 6:42 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> On 1 November 2010 21:37, Dennis Lundberg wrote: >>> On 2010-11-01 22:10, Stephen Connolly wrote: Then -1 the commits. We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Brett Porter
On 01/11/2010, at 6:42 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > On 1 November 2010 21:37, Dennis Lundberg wrote: >> On 2010-11-01 22:10, Stephen Connolly wrote: >>> Then -1 the commits. >>> >>> We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in maven last time I >>> checked >> >> So do you think th

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-02 Thread Brett Porter
On 01/11/2010, at 10:26 PM, Brian Fox wrote: >> The barrier to collaboration is high here. > > That's all I'm saying. The tools make that partially true but it's not > stopping other projects so it's clearly not the only issue. Maybe no > one really cares about these plugins, and for the ones ra

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Brian Fox
>The barrier to collaboration is high here. That's all I'm saying. The tools make that partially true but it's not stopping other projects so it's clearly not the only issue. Maybe no one really cares about these plugins, and for the ones raised so far, that's probably the case. -

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 2, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Brian Fox wrote: > 2010/11/1 Arnaud Héritier : >> I agree. >> Perhaps for some of them we could discuss to move them to mojo.codehaus.org >> to let the community take the lead on them if we find some volunteers (I'm >> thinking about the eclipse plugin for example).

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Brian Fox
2010/11/1 Arnaud Héritier : > I agree. > Perhaps for some of them we could discuss to move them to mojo.codehaus.org > to let the community take the lead on them if we find some volunteers (I'm > thinking about the eclipse plugin for example). It probably needs to be said that if people want to

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Vincent Siveton
2010/11/1 Dennis Lundberg : > I've now reverted the changes in svn. Thank Dennis to have catch up the legendary Jason's speed. Vincent - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: d

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Lundberg
On 2010-11-01 23:50, Stephen Connolly wrote: > On 1 November 2010 22:32, Dennis Lundberg wrote: >> That is something we need to add to the process. But until the process >> has been finalized I think we should revert the svn moves. >> > > +1 > > In the absense of a process, since retirement is e

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > On 2010-11-01 23:19, Vincent Siveton wrote: >> 2010/11/1 Jason van Zyl : >>> >>> On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote: >>> Hi, I agree in the fact to move unmaintened plugins but god, why are you so quick o

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote: > 2010/11/1 Jason van Zyl : >> >> On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I agree in the fact to move unmaintened plugins but god, why are you >>> so quick one more time! >>> You asked Dennis to create a wiki pa

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 1 November 2010 22:32, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > That is something we need to add to the process. But until the process > has been finalized I think we should revert the svn moves. > +1 In the absense of a process, since retirement is essentially an SVN operation, then our commit first forgive

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 1 November 2010 21:37, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > On 2010-11-01 22:10, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> Then -1 the commits. >> >> We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in maven last time I >> checked > > So do you think that it's OK for someone to pull the rug from under your > feet, w

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Lundberg
On 2010-11-01 23:19, Vincent Siveton wrote: > 2010/11/1 Jason van Zyl : >> >> On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I agree in the fact to move unmaintened plugins but god, why are you >>> so quick one more time! >>> You asked Dennis to create a wiki page but you al

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Vincent Siveton
2010/11/1 Jason van Zyl : > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I agree in the fact to move unmaintened plugins but god, why are you >> so quick one more time! >> You asked Dennis to create a wiki page but you already retired the >> plugins. > > Yes, because I would

Re: Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
in after! We are a community Jason! > And I'll happily abide by stuff we document. > Cheers, > > Vincent > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Jason van Zyl > Date: 2010/11/1 > Subject: Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins > To: Maven Developers Lis

Why are you so quick (Was: Culling dead/inactive plugins)

2010-11-01 Thread Vincent Siveton
, Vincent -- Forwarded message -- From: Jason van Zyl Date: 2010/11/1 Subject: Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins To: Maven Developers List I started moving any of the ones discussed here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/retired/ If anyone disagrees we can move them back

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > On 2010-11-01 22:10, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> Then -1 the commits. >> >> We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in maven last time I >> checked > > So do you think that it's OK for someone to pull the rug from under your > fe

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Lundberg
On 2010-11-01 22:10, Stephen Connolly wrote: > Then -1 the commits. > > We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in maven last time I > checked So do you think that it's OK for someone to pull the rug from under your feet, while you are working on something? (as in my work on the St

Re: Process [was Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins]

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Lundberg
On 2010-11-01 22:14, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > >> Hi Jason >> >> Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in >> favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. >> >> However it is not OK for you to go ch

Process [was Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins]

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > Hi Jason > > Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in > favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. > > However it is not OK for you to go changing things in Subversion less > than an hour afte

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > Hi Jason > > Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in > favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. > > However it is not OK for you to go changing things in Subversion less > than an hour afte

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Stephen Connolly
Then -1 the commits. We have a commit first, ask forgiveness second policy in maven last time I checked - Stephen On 1 Nov 2010 21:05, "Dennis Lundberg" wrote: Hi Jason Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Lundberg
Hi Jason Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. However it is not OK for you to go changing things in Subversion less than an hour after your proposal (which wasn't even labeled as one). That is not the

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
I started moving any of the ones discussed here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/retired/ If anyone disagrees we can move them back but I think the ones suggest so far are good candidates. On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Following up from a discussion on the user list.

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Arnaud Héritier wrote: > I agree. > Perhaps for some of them we could discuss to move them to mojo.codehaus.org > to let the community take the lead on them if we find some volunteers (I'm > thinking about the eclipse plugin for example). > +1 to moving out the mave

Re: Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Arnaud Héritier
I agree. Perhaps for some of them we could discuss to move them to mojo.codehaus.org to let the community take the lead on them if we find some volunteers (I'm thinking about the eclipse plugin for example). Arnaud On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Following up from a discussi

Culling dead/inactive plugins

2010-11-01 Thread Jason van Zyl
Following up from a discussion on the user list. I think it's time to be realistic about providing a healthy level of support for plugins here. I think it makes more sense to reduce the foot print of plugins we say we support and do those well as opposed to housing many plugin that just don't ge