Also, Github’s ability to modify files ‘in-place’ and create pull requests from those changes is extremely important for our Docs progress. Now that we have proper in-tree documentation, this would lower the barrier for Docs writers tremendously.
-- AY On 26 August 2016 at 17:15:54, Jake Luciani (jak...@gmail.com) wrote: Jake could you show an example issue and how the pipeline works? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> wrote: > We just switched Apache Thrift over to using Github for all our inbound > contributions, have not made Github canonical yet. We wanted to have one > unified way to accept patches and also make it easier for automated CI to > validate the patch prior to review. Much easier now that we have a set > pipeline > > -Jake > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Ben Coverston < > ben.covers...@datastax.com> > wrote: > > > I think it would certainly make contributing to Cassandra more > > straightforward. > > > > I'm not a committer, so I don't regularly create patches, and every time > I > > do I have to search/verify that I'm doing it right. > > > > But pull requests? I make pull requests every day, and GitHub makes that > > process work the same everywhere. > > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Historically we've insisted that people go through the process of > > creating > > > a Jira issue and attaching a patch or linking a branch to demonstrate > > > intent-to-contribute and to make sure we have a unified record of > changes > > > in Jira. > > > > > > But I understand that other Apache projects are now recognizing a > github > > > pull request as intent-to-contribute [1] and some are even making > github > > > the official repo, with an Apache mirror, rather than the other way > > > around. (Maybe this is required to accept pull requests, I am not > sure.) > > > > > > Should we revisit our policy here? > > > > > > [1] e.g. https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed > > > > > > -- > > > Jonathan Ellis > > > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > > > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > > > @spyced > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ben Coverston > > DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company > > > -- http://twitter.com/tjake
