> Hmm... </snip>
+1 sharing these thoughts > Also, a separate > environment comes with additional time spent in administrative stuff (look > at your long task list!) that could probably be used more wisely to build a > stable C3. +1 > So if the purpose is to lower the barrier for contribution, then why not > just having a "contrib" directory in SVN, clearly showing that these aren't > core modules, but still under the oversight of the PMC and the ASF at large? I fear that's not really lowering the barrier of entry. Still committers are the "gate keepers" > Of course, managing Git pull requests would be more convenient than applying > patches in Jira, but still, at this point, this is probably easier than > having a completely separate infrastructure. but after all there is already... https://github.com/apache/cocoon if we could accept pull requests from people with ICLAs on file - that would be a great step forward to lower the barrier for contributions. cheers, Torsten
