Made adjustments as suggested and got side navigation working

Rob



On 2/21/13 12:13 PM, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 21/02/13 18:41, Rob Vesse wrote:
>> I have added a page to the website on this - see
>> http://jena.apache.org/getting_involved/reviewing_contributions.html
>>
>
>Cool - maybe
>(not on a machine setup for on the site ... "semi" connected currently)
>
>"developers will be looking for when reviewing contributions."
>==>
>"comitters will be looking for when reviewing contributions."
>
>Typo: "Is is contributed to Apache?"
>==>
>"Is it contributed to Apache?"
>
>> I have tried to get this included in the sidebar navigation but I can't
>> figure out how that works, anyone able to fix this?
>
>Were you changing ia.txt?  Isn't that just documentation about the site
>structure, not the content?  Good to keep that up to date.
>
>The site is driven from templates/ IIRC, is it sidenav.mdtext?
>
>I'm not sure though - try out on staging first!
>
>       Andy
>
>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On 2/8/13 12:46 AM, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> One follow-up:
>>>
>>> There are two TLA that float around
>>>
>>> CTR - commit then review
>>> RTC - review then commit
>>>
>>> for two styles of operation of a project
>>>
>>> CTR is commit (to the main codebase) and have people check it
>>>afterwards
>>> - a sort of passive agreement process.  Jena is more this style.  It
>>> works for small projects when enough people can have an overview of the
>>> whole thing; it's lighter weight, the level of analysis is typically
>>> less but eyeballing changes is possible. Having a test suite is
>>> essential, creating a off trunk version to check is not. It does not
>>> work so well for large additions.  It is short-timescale.
>>>
>>> RTC is review (on JIRA or git pull requests), agree then integrate into
>>> the main code base.  Used on large projects (e.g. the Hadoops of this
>>> world) where many areas can be active at once.  It is higher overhead
>>> but necessary when the complexity of the code base means things need to
>>> be checked in detail, often by building and running e.g. performance.
>>> It has a lot longer cycle time.
>>>
>>> As a small project (and in the scheme of things, Jena is small) we can
>>> choose lighter weight processes and also vary the process to suit on
>>> each item.  Small patches can be just do it, things that change
>>> functionality can be brought to dev@.  Your judgement.
>>>
>>> Rob's excellent list applies.
>>>
>>> We ought to be fairly systematic on asking for tests both for bug
>>> reports and contributions.  We seem to get waves of "it does not work
>>> messages" and it takes inspired guesswork (well, random guesswork) to
>>> see what might be going wrong.
>>>
>>>     Andy
>>
>

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