Thank you Justin for the quick answers! 1 more below
On 2019/12/19 14:00:36, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to get some clarification on the projects degrees of freedom > > under ASF from our mentors. > > As long as you follow the Apache Way you are free to do what you want. We > have a lot of history and over time have built up guidelines which describe > what has worked well. Sometimes it's not obvious why these guidelines may > exists, so ask if you don’t know or understand or think they seem strange. > Sometimes these guideline might not work for your project, that’s OK, if you > want to do things in a different way discuss it with the incubator PMC. There > is not one path for all projects. > > > Am I correct in understanding that ASF requires project dev communications > > to be in the open and publicly available” ? > > Yes. > > > Does this need to be on only these mailing lists we have been provided by > > ASF? > > It’s preferable yes. But if they can be archived and searchable that’s fine. > Often a solution is automatically sending that conversion to a mailing list > or bringing back a summary to the list. Do I understand you correctly? We can use the original google group and add a user there with the dev@nuttx.apache.org? > > > I ask this for the reason that the lists are very hard to follow. > > Use subject line to guide you, Id suggest using an email client that supports > threads and rules to group messages. You don’t have to read everything. Given > it is early days, there’s a lot of noise, I think this will get better over > time. > > > Who is the moderator on a list? > > There’s a couple of moderators, if you want to be one just ask, but that’s > more to accept/reject emails from people who are not subscribed. All emails > from a subscribed address are automatically accepted. > > > - If someone is being abusive is that left on the list forever? > > In general yes. It hard to remove emails and they are archived in many public > places. > > > How does one correct a mistake in their post? > > Generally just reply and correct the mistake. > > > Is it an ASF edict to not use the existing NuttX slack? > > No but we would prefer conversation on the mailing list for reasons mentioned > above. > > > Other than the release procedures and distribution tools/locations is the > > project free to use any tool we want for development, testing and CI? > > In general yes. Some tools are easier to use as Infra already supports them. > > > Given the history in the name of ASF: Are we required to support changes > > by patches? > > - What tool does apache support for avoiding duplicate work on > > patches? Is there a semaphore? > > - How does a group review a patch collaboratively? > > There’s no ASF requirements here, it's up to the project to work that out. > > Hope that helps and answer your questions. If you have any or just ask. > > Thanks, > Justin
