Looking at the incubator reports: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2015 https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/October2015
it seems that github integration is also debated in certain other apache projects, so probably some solution will evolve or has already evolved. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 09:13 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > ...Whatever it is, we must fix it, even if we have to >> > subvert the current official "Apache Way" workflow.... >> >> I don't think there's an official Apache workflow related to GitHub >> usage, but if you want to dig into that it's probably worth looking >> how other projects do it. CouchDB and Cordova come to mind as early >> users of Git at the ASF. > > As I had been led to believe, Apache rules demand that pull requests > from the GitHub-verse were not allowed to be merged on the GitHub > mainline repository and then that repository synced with the Apache > master mainline one. Instead committers have to faff around with > personal Git repositories and push changesets separately to the Apache > mainline and the GitHub mainline thereby losing all the support, > simplicity, and benefit of the whole GitHub pull request > infrastructure, and moreover making the whole process annoyingly > awkward. > >> The best place for such cross-project discussions might be the >> [email protected] list, see http://community.apache.org/ > > I'll let Cédric, Paul, Jochen, and Pascal take the lead on whether to > take this issue there. They are the people this impacts. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder >
