All, I was thinking about this some over the weekend. How many of the contributors (those without commit access to the apache repository), do you think, will be accessing and submitting code via GitHub pull request? I ask because GitHub offers a template mechanism for pull requests.
Generally, a pull request is a request to merge a remote branch into a central branch. What comes along with the merge request is a title and message as well as an associated comment thread. GitHub currently accommodates for “templating” the message portion of the pull request. It essentially provides a standardized format for the pull request message. Further, one can use HTML style comments in the template for items that we do not wish to be presented in the GitHub user interface (directions and such that we don’t want to show up in the GitHub user interface). For example, the spring-boot project’s .github directory's (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/.github) pull request template has the following HTML comment: <!-- Thanks for contributing to Spring Boot. Please provide a brief description of your pull-request and reference any related issue numbers (prefix references with #). --> Is there any appetite for such an item in the commons-math repo? If so I can get a Jira issue started and a pull request in to master & develop with the changes. All the best, -Rob > On Apr 8, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:18:25 +0200, Gilles wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Struggling with how to share non-committer contributions: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1290 >> >> At some point, we should have a paragraph in >> doc/development/development.howto.txt >> that would explain which steps the contributor and committer must >> follow (i.e. one, simple, fool-proof, way) in order to, respectively, >> create and merge a pull request. > > Just noticed that there is a pretty clear recipe here: > https://github.com/apache/commons-math/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md > > Regards, > Gilles > >> >> >> Thanks, >> Gilles > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >
