Now that METRON-877 is in, I would like to proceed with Steps 3-6 of the remaining work to separate out Stellar functionality as an independent module. A couple people have suggested that this further development should be done in a Metron “dev branch”, where: a) changes are more visible than in a single person’s private development branch, and b) work can proceed for several days or a couple weeks on a branch that the collaborators may choose to keep stable for the duration (ie, without constantly updating to master).
This concept was discussed as a “speculative branch” in this email thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/391e15347ad625c4aa61e81f5dd238c0acb4048b8d77f93313298263@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E but I don’t see that we ever actually changed our bylaws to mention it. Nevertheless, it falls within the purview of the PMC to create new branches in our code tree, and I request PMC members to give me a lazy consensus vote to do so. Please +1 this email if you agree. The proposed rules of engagement are (drawn from issues raised in that email thread): 1. Commits to this branch to have the same rules as to master: Jira, PR, and at least one +1 from a knowledgeable reviewer, and no -1’s. 2. +1 reviews may come from any participating contributor, not only current committers. But commits still have to be made by a committer, so we don’t have to create new auth infra for this branch. 3. The branch should be updated from master at least every second week, or more frequently. This may be adjusted to avoid disruption of work in progress. 4. PR’s to master will be posted for review as soon as self-consistent chunks of useful functionality are done. The collaborators will define those chunks, but a rough goal is every two weeks. The goal is to avoid mega-patches to review. 5. PR’s to master will be posted by a single developer from their home github repo, not directly from the speculative branch, so that collaborative work can proceed on the speculative branch. 6. The PR’s will be credited equally to all collaborators active during that “chunk” of work. 7. PR’s to master have to be reviewed and agreed to as though they were new patches. (The fact they were previously accepted into the speculative branch is at most a recommendation, not an a priori decision to let them into master.) The usual rules apply. While collaborators will likely want to +1 such PRs, sufficient time must be provided for other community members to review and raise issues. Thanks, --Matt
