Abdelatif, Thank you. The link did not lad me and I have no idea what to look at there among the 10,404 words...
David -----Original Message----- From: Abdelatif Guettouche [mailto:abdelatif.guettou...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2020 10:41 AM To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: squashing commits or not > How about clear to the point work steps? Do we have the interim workflow > listed anywhere that it can be read, without the diatribes? I just wrote something really quickly. Maybe you want to take a look [1] We can add to that section more information on how to squash WIP commits using interactive rebasing. I'll come back later to do more. But I need to go. Feel free to edit. 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/Code+Contribution+Workflow+--+Brennan+Ashton#CodeContributionWorkflow--BrennanAshton-BeforeSubmittingYourChanges On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:37 PM David Sidrane <david.sidr...@nscdg.com> wrote: > > I think you are over-reading this. If we do not have a clear list of > instructions we are not helping, we are confusing our would be committers > (Additional Committers email). If you do not think of them as Rules but > more > of sharing your "best engineering judgment" to educate the group, you > know, > Share the knowledge help the community, help the project.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Nutt [mailto:spudan...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2020 9:25 AM > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: Re: squashing commits or not > > No one gets to set any rules. No one gets to enforce any rules. > Committers are free to do what they choose. That is the Apache way: It > is anarchy held together by a belief in common principles and a project > culture. If you can't trust people to do that job, you are working on > the wrong project. > > I will no be held by any such rules. I will always use my best > engineering judgement. And I will take my scolding when I deserve it. > > What you can do, is help to educate people about the pros and cons of > the work in general. You have to trust that it is everyone's intention > in their heart to do the best job that they can. But you will never be > able to force rules to control others behavior in this environment. No > one has the authority to do that.
