On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 22:09 Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > This came up at the recent devs meeting: could we move to github flow > committing to Apache HBase? Do folks want this? If so, what would it take? > What would it look like? > > The new gitbox repos at apache allow contribution back into apache via > github tooling: PRs can be merged into apache repos with a click of a > button, github-based comments can show as comments in apache JIRA. The new > hbase-operator-tools and hbase-connector repos are gitbox based. We can run > experiments there with fear of damage to the core. > > The justification is that if our project supported PRs and contribution via > github, we could glean more contributors. > > Below I repeat two follow-on comments taken from the "Rough notes from dev > meetup, day after hbaseconasia 2018, saturday morning" thread by way of a > kickstart: > > From our Josh Elser: > > > This [supporting PRs] is something the PMC should take to heart. If we > are excluding > > contributions because of how we choose accept them, we're limiting our > own > > growth. Do we have technical reasons (e.g. PreCommit) which we cannot > accept > > PR's or is it just because "we do patches because we do patches"? > > > > By our Sean: > > "I don't want to bog down this thread, but there are a ton of > unanswered questions for allowing github PRs. > > "The biggest one for me is that JIRA is currently our best hope for an > authoritative place for authorship information. If we're taking PRs > from folks who have GitHub accounts but find ASF JIRA accounts too > burdensome, what are we putting for the author in JIRA? Am I going to > have to look in JIRA before a certain date and in Git after? Or in Git > only if JIRA is set to some "HBase Contributor from GitHub" account?" > > Thanks, > St.Ack >
Hey folks, This authorship bit might be coming up now. There's a PR for an existing JIRA issue that I'd like to accept, but AFAICT the PR author doesn't have a JIRA account. I've asked them about it. If they don't have an account and don't want to make one, I suppose I'll make a placeholder JIRA account and send the details to the PMC, unless someone objects. I'm not happy about the bifrucation of authorship information but I don't see how forcing JIRA account creation could possibly be sustainable. >
