2012/9/6 Jesse Glick <jgl...@cloudbees.com>: > On 09/05/2012 08:39 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >> >> I'm a bit curious to see if that will increase externals contributions. > > > I think plain Git is only marginally more friendly for external contributors > than Subversion. Yes you can create a local branch and update it against > trunk changes, but you still need to manually attach patches to JIRA; > reviewing and updating patches this way is painful. Maybe we can improve tooling I started long ago (http://olamy.blogspot.fr/2011/11/from-pull-request-to-jira-issue.html). As jira is definitely better for issue management ! > > It is GitHub, principally pull requests but also the ability to comment on > individual diff lines in any published revision, which is far and away > better for collaboration. If Maven and satellite projects are moved to Git > hosted on Apache servers only, I do not see contributions being much easier. > The better approach to my mind would be to use GitHub-hosted repositories > for all collaboration and ongoing development, and just mirror to Apache > clones if necessary for legal reasons. Is that possible? If not, GitHub > mirrors could still be used for pull requests, but the committer would have > to do some manual synchronization. For legal reasons, not possible. BTW contributors can use github to propose pull request to git mirrors @github github.com/apache so we can fetch changes from others (hey it's a dvcs :-) ) or use generated patches. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >
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