Good points, Henry - thank you for raising them. 1. RTC policy: There is no reason we have to have the same conventions for the strictness of review uniformly. Although gerrit will still enforce RTC, we can set a convention (or even write it into the bylaws) that one should not +2 oneself except in the docs directory. Many variations are possible. I'd suggest we get it going and re-evaluate frequently.
2. Separate branch: John Russell and Laurel Hale and I talked about it. This would still have a RTC enforcement by the ASF VC servers, except for committers. Those committers can already +2 themselves on our gerrit setup. The advantage of same-branch work is that the docs can be more closely synced. In particular, when master is branched for a release, the docs will be branched, too. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Does that mean that docs will be subject to the same RTC policy as the rest > of master? There seems to be a lot more churn in the docs content - did you > give any consideration to having them on a separate branch? > > On 14 November 2016 at 13:37, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Impala user docs are hopefully going to be added to the master >> branch soon. THey are built using a tool called "dita-ot". I have >> added it to the impala-setup repo that we tell new developers to use >> to get their environment configured. >> >> If you want to install this tool, you can manually follow the chef >> recipe in that change to impala-setup: >> >> UNZIP_LOCATION=$(mktemp -d) >> cd "${UNZIP_LOCATION}" >> wget https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/releases/download/2.3. >> 3/dita-ot-2.3.3.zip >> unzip dita-ot-2.3.3.zip >> sudo cp -r dita-ot-2.3.3 /opt/ >> cd ~ >> rm -rf "${UNZIP_LOCATION}" >> echo 'PATH=/opt/dita-ot-2.3.3/bin:"${PATH}"' >> ~/.bashrc >> >> Once the docs are in, I am anticipating sending a patch to add a >> "make-docs.sh" or the like to $IMPALA_HOME/bin/. I may also add it to >> buildall.sh >> > > > > -- > Henry Robinson > Software Engineer > Cloudera > 415-994-6679
