As the philosopher Yoda once stated: "Do or Do Not, There is no try'. Having a restriction on how (potential) non-privileged contributors can contribute is not a good thing for this project. What it will lead to is more instead of less hurdles to contribute. Some may report a bug in an email (even though not subscribed to a mailing list). Disregarding that and hammering on 'follow the dictates' does not get issues resolved faster. So given current state of the project, such does not benefit the project or potential adopters/contribot) more. It only benefits those not willing to collaborate/contribute (and/or bureaucrats).
This applies to the first 3 aspects raised by Mathieu. As for the 4th: The availability of an API (whether for Github or JIRA - and yes JIRA has such as well) doesn't make OFBiz reports (quarterly, not monthly) better by itself. It needs commitment on various levels to have it used consistently. AFAICT, this is not going to happen soon in this project. Met vriendelijke groet, Pierre Smits *Proud* *contributor** of* Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org/> since 2008 (without privileges) *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:30 PM Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lir...@nereide.fr> wrote: > Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> writes: > > > Le 11/03/2020 à 12:33, Mathieu Lirzin a écrit : > >>>> This said you certainly saw this thread started by Pierre Smits: > >>> https://markmail.org/message/so7ljoqxzuq7jplz and the related wiki > >>> document > >>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Contributing+via+Git+and+Github > >> AIUI this page is only collection of Git/Github tips and fuzzy > >> "maybe"/"you can" rules. Moreover it does not propose to > >> replace/deprecate/simplify existing contribution procedures/tools. > > > > Yes, that's really missing, I agree. I once created OFBIZ-1129 (Tools to > backport), but finally closed it for 2 reasons: > > > > 1. Not enough interest (most important reason by far) > > 2. Spent some time, did not find easy way to replace scripts, I don't > think fits. > > > > I think Pierre's effort is a try for the procedure aspect. Why not > > joining there and improve? > > You are right. I should be more constructive than just acknowledging > that the requirements I expressed were not properly considered. > > Let me try joining Pierre's effort by providing a simple but radical > proposal for our contribution procedure : > > - Adopt Github Pull Request (PR) as the unique channel for code > contribution > - Require tickets only for bug reports > - Replace JIRA with Github issues > - Use Github API to get the stats for OFBiz monthly reports > > @Pierre: What do you think ? > > -- > Mathieu Lirzin > GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 >
