Christian - if there's anything we can do to help advocate for making GitHub the main repo for Olingo, please let us know. At Microsoft we've put all our OSS libraries on GitHub because that's where most open source contributors are working and comfortable. We are getting a reasonable number of contributions across our libraries and are happy with the process overall. And frankly, we would probably contribute more to the JavaScript client if the process was just a PR on GitHub.
-----Original Message----- From: Amend, Christian [mailto:christian.am...@sap.com] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 11:55 PM To: dev@olingo.apache.org Cc: Marc Schweigert <mar...@microsoft.com>; Dénes Csiszár <denes.csis...@jaystack.com>; Robert Bonay <robert.bo...@jaystack.com> Subject: RE: Hello from the JayData team - volunteering to contribute/continue odatav4-js Hi Peter, yes creating the GitHub clone was the right approach. This will give you the possibility to make changes independent from any committers access rights. We followed the same approach for the Google Summer of Code where a Student developed code over the summer. Since we could not give him a "committer" status he made the changes in a GitHub repository and we committed them. Unfortunately the GitHub to Apache integration is a bit rusty. So we would still need patch files to get the changes into the Apache main repository. As we saw with the GSoC the best way to collect these patches is JIRA. In my personal opinion I would love to use GitHub as a main repository as the contribution mechanism via Pull requests is far easier than creating patch files. Here the Apache policies come into play. The main repository must be within the Apache infrastructure for now. There currently is another project which got permission to use GitHub as a main repository as a POC but Olingo does not have this opportunity right now. I hope this changes in the future. Best Regards, Christian -----Original Message----- From: Peter Zentai [mailto:peter.zen...@jaystack.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2015 15:38 To: dev@olingo.apache.org Cc: Marc Schweigert <mar...@microsoft.com>; Dénes Csiszár <denes.csis...@jaystack.com>; Robert Bonay <robert.bo...@jaystack.com> Subject: Re: Hello from the JayData team - volunteering to contribute/continue odatav4-js Hi Christian and thanks Mark for the introduction first and foremost thanks a lot for your welcoming lines Christian. We would be honored if we could participate. As a matter of fact we already started doing some things so as to at least have things compiling/deploying. Time is now a great pressure on us (we need to be delivering something substantial business value by Q1 - 2016, but we already have a ctp release date at 16th December). So for now, and really just as a means of getting some results, we made a fork from olingo-odata4-js on Github and fixed the most pressing issues with NPM v3. (We created a PR in the https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=Github.com&data=01%7c01%7cmastaffo%40microsoft.com%7c74c74064eecf4c07e21d08d3017a54d0%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=1HcALxc2vndOi6SK6Y6xqZhJU%2bchISU2KMcEczhqi7g%3d copy of the project, clear just to indicate our intentions. we understand that that PR would never be accepted) We are to deploy an interim npmjs package from this fork. As next step we make ourselves super prepped in the Apache Foundation way of things (thanks for the starting point) and start collecting issues in JIRA. In the mean time - just this year - we will maintain our Github fork, strictly stating everywhere that this fork should not be used other then to test JayData 1.5 From January we would drop our fork and would contribute to the main on the way we are supposed to. Do you think there are plans from Apache side to integrate using pull requests vs diffs attached to tickets? I am interested in your thoughts, is this approach acceptable? best regards Peter Sent from Windows Mail From: Amend, Christian<mailto:christian.am...@sap.com> Sent: ?Thursday?, ?December? ?10?, ?2015 ?1?:?52? ?PM To: dev@olingo.apache.org<mailto:dev@olingo.apache.org> Cc: Marc Schweigert<mailto:mar...@microsoft.com> Hi Peter, awesome to hear that you are also driving forward the OData V4.0 development. We have a similar resource situation and therefore focused on the development of the OData V4.0 Java server Library. Olingo data.js was so far a contribution from Microsoft and you are right that, based on the resource situation, there were less development activities on the V4.0 JavaScript client side. We are looking forward to contributions for the Olingo odata.js client from your side. We are living the Apache Open Source way as described here https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.apache.org%2ffoundation%2fgetinvolved.html.&data=01%7c01%7cmastaffo%40microsoft.com%7c74c74064eecf4c07e21d08d3017a54d0%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=ww0VWV9gvb8OZYxwmyKOxFykdyQhUbdMV%2btS7wunKGg%3d Everybody can contribute to the Olingo project and we are committing the code changes. Actually we are reworking our contribution guide and creating a separate one for Java Script. As first step we recommend that you clone project, create JIRA issues for bugs you find and attach according patches to the issue. Which we can validate and commit. This is also the first time since Incubation that a larger group of people approach the Olingo community with an explicit interest to commit to Olingo. Previously we received the contributions first and then decided to give someone committing rights to the repository. This would ensure that committers understand the code and have a longer interest in the project. Since you now come and state that interest upfront we have no precedent within the Olingo community on how to handle this. I would suggest that we handle this in the most open way as possible on the mailing list. So I hope you can bear and discuss with us when we are figuring out on how to best introduce and include you into the community. Are there concrete plans, when you want to start with the development? Best Regards, Christian -----Original Message----- From: Peter Zentai [mailto:peter.zen...@jaystack.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2015 12:27 To: dev@olingo.apache.org Cc: Marc Schweigert <mar...@microsoft.com> Subject: Hello from the JayData team - volunteering to contribute/continue odatav4-js Hello Olingo Dev Team, I am writing on behalf of the JayData team at jaystack.com. We have been heavily investing in OData in the past years - almost exclusively on the JavaScript side. In the past we created JayData - one of the notable JS tools for V1-V3 OData with is idiomatic approach.. Unfortunately we could not catch up with V4 because of resources issues. These issues has been battled - and we managed to pull in a sizable investment money (in the range of $2m) to help our dreams come true. Which is providing a full suite of ODataV4 client and server tools for JavaScript. For this purpose we would like to continue using olingo-odata-js, as a protocol level driver - as we did it in the past. Unfortunately this piece, the odata-v4-js library seems kind of abandoned. No changes for more then a half year and the npm package is definitely broken on npm 3.x. (especially the RAT package is not working - which is a particularly unfortunate thing, as RAT does not add to the olingo functionality just renders it broken). Also there are a number of issues in the current implementation which we consider bugs. Our humble question is: is there a way for us to actively contribute to odata-v4-js, potentially maintaining this on a daily basis with a dedicated dev team of 2-3 developers? How governance works? What should be our next steps? Thanks for any help on this yours sincerely Peter Aron Zentai OBO the JayData team Sent from Windows Mail
