We all agree on using Java though, and using a specific version, and even
the style output from gradle tidy. Is that nanny state or community
consensus?

On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 7:29 AM Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> example of a nanny state IMO, trying to dictate what git commands to
> use, or what editor to use. Maybe this works for you in your corporate
> hellholes, but I think some folks have a bit of a power issue, are
> accustomed to dictacting this stuff to their employees and so on, but
> this is open-source. I don't report to you, i dont use the editor you
> tell me, or the git commands you tell me.
>
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 8:21 AM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to give your attention to the following discussion:
> > https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12737#issuecomment-1793426911
> >
> >  From my knowledge the Lucene (and Solr) community decided a while back
> > to disable merging and only allow squashig of PRs. Robert always did
> > this, but because of a one-time problem with two branches he was working
> > on in parallel, he suddenly changed his mind and did merges on his own,
> > not sqashing the branch and pushing to ASF Git.
> >
> > I am also not a fan of removing all history, but especially for heavy
> > committing branches like the given PR, I think we should invite our
> > committers to also adhere to community standards everyone else
> > practices. I would agree with merging those branches if all commit
> > messages in the branch would be well-formed with issue ID or PR number,
> > but in the above case you get a history of random commits which is no
> > longer linear and not easy readable.
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> > Uwe
> >
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> >
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