If I was asked to vote on moving to RTC I don’t know if I would be -1 but my vote would be negative. Largely for the same reason as Gary. Yes, stuff has been committed that I wish wasn’t but I can guarantee RTC wouldn’t have fixed that. It is simply that I couldn’t review the commit in a timely manner. That would happen whether it is RTC or CTR.
OTOH. If you want to move to a policy where every commit has to be done through a PR that doesn’t require any approvals I could probably go for that. That would leave a record in GitHub that is easier to wade through and eview than email is. It also isn’t much harder to do. It could also have the advantage of running a build against it through CI tooling. I would also be in favor of saying merges should be prevented until a successful build of the PR is completed. I have found too many times that people are committing stuff and not doing a full rebuild so this would ensure that doesn’t happen. And the extra time a CI build would take doesn’t seem like too much of a burden to me. In short, the only part about this I don’t like is having to wait for a review. We all pretty much know the difference between something that should be reviewed and something that doesn’t require it and follow that practice. Ralph > On Jan 27, 2022, at 7:16 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Crater and all, > > Let me further elaborate that one of the attractions here is the Apache > value of community over code, and for me, commit-then-review, > exemplifies that. Ironically, I know people here a lot less personally and > professionally than I do people I work with; but, I trust you, I trust > everyone on the PMC. We can make mistakes, we fix them, we can revert > commits, and so on, and it is through all of these activities that we build > a community, our community. For me, review-then-commit, says "I don't trust > you". It feels like work. At that point, we might as well start our own > company and provide paid support and development for Log4j forks or > whatever else we want, then we can put in all the processes anyone wants. > > Gary > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:02 AM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Carter, >> >> I think we'll have to agree to disagree, especially if you want RTC just >> to add a single getter method, as your example shows. At work we use RTC >> for everything, no exceptions, and that's all good and works for our team, >> _at work_. This is not what I want to do in my free time. >> >> Gary >> >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 8:01 PM Carter Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What if RTC only applied to the primary branch, release-2.x? We've had >>> changes like this[1] which I discovered after the fact and wish we'd had a >>> chance to discuss before it merged. Pushing changes prior to review is >>> faster and easier for the committer, but ultimately creates an arduous >>> process for reviewers. I've found it harder to have retroactive >>> conversations about changes that have already merged. >>> >>> -ck >>> >>> 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread/qn9b22fqv4yzg6jb114ovso40fnc1k0n >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 16:22, Gary Gregory wrote: >>>> Not for me, this changes CTR to RTC, which is fine for work$, but too >>> slow >>>> for me here. When I find time for FOSS, I just want to go and do it, not >>>> get bogged down in process. RTC is fine for a new medium to large >>> feature, >>>> but not for everything. Right now, I do something in release-2.x, then >>>> cherry-pick to master, already a PITA because of the JPMS mess, now it >>> has >>>> to be a 4 step process instead of 2? Pass. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 15:25 Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> According to the OSSF Scorecards <https://github.com/ossf/scorecard>, >>> we >>>>> are missing two check marks (LOG4J2-3260 >>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3260>) there: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Require code review (every change goes into a PR and requires at >>>>> least one reviewer) >>>>> 2. Require a CI status check >>>>> >>>>> Even though I admit with the convenience of freedom we have right >>> now, I >>>>> personally find it difficult to keep track of what is going in and >>> out. >>>>> This convention does not aim to obstruct the development progress, but >>>>> rather improve the overall code quality and spread the know-how in a >>>>> scalable way. Hence, I want to implement this feature on >>> `release-2.x` and >>>>> `master` branches. Thoughts? >>>>> >>>> >>> >>
