2013/8/16 Daniel Gruno <rum...@cord.dk> > On 08/15/2013 08:02 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Oone of the compelling things about the Allura project is that it > > provides a unified software forge, while Apache projects tend to operate > > with a loosely coupled (or completely uncoupled) set of tools to develop > > their code. > > > > While one is usually reluctant to spam the entire committer@ list with > > ... well, with anything ... > It's been done before (I did it once, not too long ago) and with great > success. People tend to be positive towards receiving such mails, if > they are well crafted and explain exactly _why_ projects would benefit > from using this software. > > > it may be useful to send a (well written) > > message to committers@ that says: > > > > 1) Here's what Allura does. > If you're going to send to committers@, I'd put emphasis on what it does > _for projects such as Apache projects_, and not so much on _everything > it does_. So emphasis on collaboration (and exactly how this is > achieved, 'cause we know Allura is kind'a good at that ;) ) would be a > good thing. >
Daniel would you be open to draft a message in this sense? Given your experience with Apache projects and your knowledge of Allura I believe you'd be able to capture the essence of what matters most to Apache folks. On a separate line of thoughts I'd be interested in learning your ideas about how heatbeats and allura could be integrated. Roberto > > As you said in the beginning, it's a unified software forge, which means > people won't have to ask infra for 17378 different tools every time they > set up a new project or migrate from podling to TLP, so maybe but some > of that in as a compelling argument. > > > > 2) Here's the kind of things we hope Allura does in the coming N months. > > > > 3) What kinds of tools would you, as a committer on the Apache Foo > > project, like to see in a forge style tool, or are you completely > > content with the status quo in Apache development tools? > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > With regards, > Daniel. >
