I agree, at least commiters should be allowed to do this. Regards, Nikhil
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 3:19 PM Isaac Kamga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Myrle, > > I support this proposal especially as it encourages developers to bring in > their changes earlier than later. > > The community would also have to ensure that work doesn't suffer from > negligence too. Is there already the motivation to do that ? Asking because > sometimes even PRs on develop which are ready take months to get merged. > > Cheers, > Isaac Kamga. > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:57 AM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > PROPOSAL: > > "Rather than ask contributors to squash everything into a single commit > and > > our committers to merge it all at once, we should suggest the use of git > > branches for development which occurs over longer periods or larger line > or > > file counts. The branch should be named after the Jira ticket it > > corresponds to." > > > > This would have the following advantages: > > * make it possible for other contributors to collaborate on larger > changes > > that aren't yet ready for primetime. By choosing a finer granularity of > > collaboration, we would enable smaller contributions, and better engage > our > > more casual volunteers. > > * bring the development process to Apache infrastructure earlier, which > > would provide more complete data for proposals to make a contributor > into a > > committer. > > * provide more satisfaction to contributors: they get affirmation on each > > step of their process rather than getting that affirmation only once at > the > > end. [1] Psychology research shows this is a more motivating and kind > way > > of giving feedback. > > * make it easier for me, personally to follow the development process > > retroactively. > > > > If y'all don't object to my proposal in the next 72 hours then I'm going > to > > start applying it. > > > > Best Regards, > > Myrle > > > > 1.) > > https://upraise.io/blog/frequency-key-successful-performance-management/ > > >
