The SIP template should have a question that each proposal MUST answer:

“Describe your consideration of what goes in solr-core and what goes in 
packages or contrib.”

Jan Høydahl

> 5. des. 2019 kl. 14:22 skrev Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> Fine, here's my SIP process.
> 
> You can't add one feature unless you remove two others.
> 
> Very simple and works.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:11 AM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote:
>> Let’s keep this thread about code review guidelines, not about feature 
>> removal, please. And be concrete with proposals for re-wording Davids 
>> proposal instead of sidetracking.
>> As David said, we need to do both. I think the SIP process for new features 
>> and APIs may be a far better way than some hard «feature freeze».
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>> > 4. des. 2019 kl. 22:49 skrev Noble Paul <noble.p...@gmail.com>:
>> > 
>> >> I don't think this has anything to do with code review: it has to do with 
>> >> people just piling in features, but not taking the time to do any 
>> >> janitorial work or remove old features that shouldn't be there anymore (I 
>> >> AM LOOKING AT YOU HDFS)
>> > 
>> > 100 %. If there is one problem with Solr today, it is feature bloat.
>> > We need to trim down Solr by atleast 50%
>> > 
>> > What we need to do urgently is to create a white list of essential
>> > features and eliminate others. We are just getting crushed by the
>> > amount of code we have in Solr. We don't have so many people who can
>> > actively maintain such a large codebase
>> > 
>> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:34 AM David Smiley <david.w.smi...@gmail.com> 
>> > wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Mike D.,
>> >>  I loved your response, especially for researching what other projects do!
>> >> 
>> >> ... more responses within...
>> >> 
>> >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:42 PM Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >>> 
>> >>> I'm coming late into this thread because a lot of the discussion 
>> >>> happened while I was offline, so some of the focus has shifted, but I'll 
>> >>> try to address a few topics that were brought up earlier anyway. In an 
>> >>> effort to be brief, I'll try to summarize sentiments rather than 
>> >>> addressing specific quotes - if I mischaracterize something please let 
>> >>> me know!
>> >>> 
>> >>> First, I don't believe that RTC requires consensus voting with 3 reviews 
>> >>> per commit or anything nearly so burdensome. A brief survey of other 
>> >>> Apache projects shows that most on RTC only need a single review, and 
>> >>> also can include exceptions for trivial changes like we are discussing 
>> >>> here. If we're trying to find a compromise position, I personally would 
>> >>> prefer to be more on the RTC side because I think it's a more 
>> >>> responsible place to be for a project that backs billions of dollars of 
>> >>> revenue across hundreds of companies annually.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Spark is pretty strict RTC, but with such a volume of contributions it 
>> >>> may be the only option sustainable for them. 
>> >>> https://spark.apache.org/contributing.html
>> >>> HBase requires a review and has an exception for trivial patches - 
>> >>> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#_review
>> >>> Yetus requires reviews, but allows binding review from non-committers, 
>> >>> and has a no review expiration. https://s.apache.org/mi0r8 - there's a 
>> >>> lot of other good discussion there too.
>> >>> Zookeeper requires a minimum one day waiting period on all code change, 
>> >>> but does not require explicit reviews. - 
>> >>> https://zookeeper.apache.org/bylaws.html
>> >>> 
>> >>> One piece I'll echo from the Yetus discussion is that if we have a habit 
>> >>> of review, then we're less likely to get stagnant patches, and we're 
>> >>> also more likely to engage with non-committer contributions. If we don't 
>> >>> have that habit of reviews, then patches do get stale, and 
>> >>> trust/self-enforcement becomes the only sustainable way forward.
>> >>> 
>> >>> A second point that I'm also concerned about is the idea that we don't 
>> >>> want JIRA issues or CHANGES entries for trivial or even minor patches. 
>> >>> This has a huge impact on potential contributors and their accessibility 
>> >>> to the project. If contributors aren't credited for all of their work, 
>> >>> then it makes it harder for them to reach invitation as a committer. As 
>> >>> a personal example, a lot of my changes were around logging and error 
>> >>> handling, which are minor on your list but fairly important for a 
>> >>> supporter in aggregate. If the community signalled that the work was 
>> >>> less valuable, less visible, and less likely to be accepted (each of 
>> >>> which can follow from the previous I think) then I don't know that I 
>> >>> would have been motivated to try and contribute those issues.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Our CHANGES.txt tries to simultaneously be a useful document in informing 
>> >> users (and us) of what was changed for what issue that we might actually 
>> >> care about, and *also* give kudos to contributors.  There is a lot of 
>> >> noise in there, as it is.  If hypothetically a contributor files a JIRA 
>> >> issue with minor/trivial priority, then maybe a git author tag is enough? 
>> >>  Or if not then maybe adding a special section in the CHANGES.txt for a 
>> >> special thanks to contributors of unspecified issues?
>> >> 
>> >>> 
>> >>> To the point about security issues, that's something that should 
>> >>> probably be addressed explicitly on the security/private list, and it 
>> >>> absolutely needs review if only so that other developers can learn and 
>> >>> avoid those issues again. That's where the power of community is really 
>> >>> important, and I don't expect issues like that to sit around with a 
>> >>> patch waiting for very long anyway.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Overall, I think following in the Yetus or ZK model with a 72 hour 
>> >>> timeout is a reasonable compromise, especially because a hard shift from 
>> >>> CTR to RTC would need a corresponding culture shift that may not happen 
>> >>> immediately.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Yes I agree.  Can you suggest a proposed guideline (or perhaps actual 
>> >> policy?  hmm)?  Today our guidelines don't quite have this rule, which 
>> >> thus allows a committer to commit a major change immediately without a 
>> >> review (ouch!).  Surely we don't *actually* want to allow that.
>> >> 
>> >>> 
>> >>> 
>> >>> Mike
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
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