On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 02/11/2010, at 6:06 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> >> >>> Those parts are about 10% at the start and end. The rest is in the middle, >>> and perhaps the pressure to fix more things while you are there. >>> >> >> No, I think it's mostly not seeing the patches and no one actively >> cultivating the patches to a useful state, waiting to long to process them >> and then they become impossible to try easily. > > That's the bit in the middle I was referring to, so I think we agree on this. > I'd also add that the infrequency of releases hurts, so the threads on the > list are starting to become inter-related. > >> >> The increased visibility of something simple like a pull request is an >> amazing thing. > > So there's two sides to it - processing contributions, and encouraging them > in the first place. > > The examples you gave are substantially different in that they get some > dedicated attention, and are new and easier to change, so I'm not sure they > give us the same information. > > Is there a way we can utilise pull requests from github.org/apache and still > get them back to the svn repository so we can try this in a meaningful way? >
That's basically saying in practice our canonical repositories are in Git. If we work out of Git, take pull requests then SVN just becomes the persistence mechanism. This is what folks like Jim argue against because he thinks it's "anti-community". Do I want to put up with those nonsensical arguments? Not really. If we could setup Gerrit, and have a copy of all our code in Github then possibly. But I really think this would be looked dimly upon by everyone else here. > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- Simplex sigillum veri. (Simplicity is the seal of truth.)
