Hi Nick, I agree the infrastructure problem you have pointed out have been blocking the initial commit, and it blocks everything toward the release. To solve the problem, I think all what we need is the operational management at the official github repo. It is hard to solve the problem technologically because Miracl's engineering team (and ours too) want to use CI tools, and it means OAuth grants for access by the CI tools must be managed at the repository on which they work.
We NTT request to allow for contributors to work at their own fork repository. All the changes on the code happens at local fork repositories owned by each contributor, however, the changes at local fork will be pull-requested to the official repo, and the operation team at the official repo will review the pull-request and merge it to the official. If this workflow is OK for everybody here, NTT would like to take the effort of operational tasks and managements on the official repo at least until we reach the first release. I sincerely hope this proposal would contribute in resolving the blocker. Please feel free to share your concerns if any. Regards, Go Yamamoto -----Original Message----- From: Nick Kew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VOTE] Retire Milagro On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:16:09 +0000 "John D. Ament" <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > This is a call to vote to retire the Milagro podling. +-0. Subject to change in either direction. For a long time, this project has not been happening at Apache, and on that basis retirement seems appropriate. My past attempts to prod it have met with no response[1]. On the other hand, some more promising activity has recently been seen on this list, notably with the arrival of NTT folks and an active newcomer who I've only just realised isn't an initial committer from the Miracl team! I have been meaning for some time to try once more to prod it and would be reluctant to vote for retirement before doing so. I've been doing battle with a failing internet connection, but I've now parted company with the ISP in question. So hopefully I'll now be fine to review all list traffic since [1] and post thoughts within 24 hours. > Here are the documented problems: > > - Development does not happen at Apache. This is confirmed in changes > like [1] where you are trying to repoint mirrors away from the Apache > hosted repository into a Miracl hosted repository. At the time the repos were created, there was an issue with folks being less than happy with the level of github integration then available. I touched on this in [1], but should no doubt have been clearer. IF THERE ARE INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES HOLDING THINGS BACK, THE TEAM NEEDS TO SPEAK UP! > - No board report submitted for months. Indeed, someone from the team needs to take responsibility. In the early days I did too much of this myself, but it's not supposed to be a mentor task! [1] Most recently http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/milagro-dev/201711.mbox/%3C15102433 30.26629.45.camel%40mimir.webthing.com%3E -- Nick Kew
