Go,
On 2017-06-25 23:31 (-0400), Go Yamamoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. This is an issue on openness. > > We are willing to follow the openness. > For example, our code is open on the internet. > https://github.com/CertiVox-i3-NTT It looks like you've forked Milagro on your company account. > However, we have difficulty in merging the code with other forks that are to > be pushed to incubator-milagro. > One of the reason is lack of the communication channels that decide the merge. This is odd to me. Why do you require a second set of eyes to merge? You are a committer on the project. Feel free to commit straight to master. Granted, I'm not sure if there was an agreed upon workflow. Do you have pull requests open? > > Please advise us how we should communicate. I would recommend just sending emails to dev@. See who responds. > > NTT would like to contribute open source projects and have decided to > contribute to Milagro project because we support the idea. We also think the > current situation is undesirable, and wish to change too. With the notes about Miracl, are there any other contributors interested in the project? > > I think we need an open ticketing board like by Jira or a shared issue board > in GitHub. > All the problems in the project are shared and acknowledged there, and all > the changes will be merged/rejected by ordinary pull-requests by git. > It is the best way we know, however, I am always willing to learn. > > Go > > ________________________________________ > From: anthony shaw <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 6:40:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Retire Milagro > > Hi Go, > > I thought this project was dead as well, your comment "we prefer > communicating using Slack and Hangout", probably highlights most of the > issue. This is not about preference, it's about openness; if you need to be > on the core team or part of NTT to be involved in the conversation, this is > not an open-source project at all. It's "source open" as Scott Hanselman > likes to say, your source code is on the internet, that's it. > > You have to have an open and active community, otherwise if/when NTT > decides to pull funding from Milagro, the project dies. > > The ASF does not enforce use of SVN, actually, most projects are now on Git > (and mirrored to GitHub). The Milagro project is untouched > https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro > > Regards, > Anthony Shaw > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Go Yamamoto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree we need to discuss. > > > > I think the critical problem is in communication, not necessarily in the > > level of activities. > > > > I do not think Milagro is inactive. We NTT have been trying to > > contribute the code for more than a year, and still we have 10Ks lines of > > code that wait for discussion on merge. > > > > The problem is in the communication styles that divides the project. For > > example, we prefer communicating using Slack and Hangout, not in mailing > > lists. As far as I understand, most of technical discussions are in those > > channels, and the code is stored and merged in GitHub spaces. As the > > result the activities are not visible from the projects' official > > channels. That is the problem. > > > > I know one would say that is not an Apache project and the style is not an > > Apache way. I agree it makes sense. However, we are not simply accustomed > > to write codes communicating by mailing lists and using SVN. Should we > > learn to? To be, or not to be, or to look for a balanced style. That is > > the point. > > > > To start the discussion, I believe we can agree we all hope this project > > is fruitful and productive. > > > > I think Milagro still has a promising scope and good use cases in IoT, and > > I would like to continue leading the NTT's engineering team to contribute. > > > > Go > > ________________________________________ > > From: John D. Ament <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 3:25:15 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Retire Milagro > > > > All, > > > > I'd like to bring up the idea of retiring the Milagro podling. You've > > been incubating for about 18 months and from what I can tell there is no on > > list activity nor commits happening. > > > > John > > ________________________________ > > This email message is intended for the use of the person to whom it has > > been sent, and may contain information that is confidential or legally > > protected. 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