git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-openaz.git

Colm.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Farazath Ahamed <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Tried cloning the repo at apache incubator[1]. It seem to return an empty
> repository. What's the correct link of the read only git repo?
>
>
>
> [1] git://git.apache.org/incubator-openaz.git
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Colm O hEigeartaigh <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your response Hal. Comments inline as well:
>>
>>
>> > We will probably move most of it over. However, I assume the same
>> > licensing considerations apply here as for the code, so I have not done
>> any
>> > work on it yet. I have an action to investigate whether we can retain
>> the
>> > current email archive at Liberty or whether we will have to move it to
>> some
>> > other location.
>> >
>> >
>> Ok cool. I was just about to encourage you to log JIRAs to track these
>> when
>> it appears that JIRA has not yet been set up. I will investigate this.
>>
>>
>> > > b) Source code formatting: The source uses tabs + contains some
>> control
>> > > m characters (root pom). The norm at Apache is to use "spaces"
>> > > indentation instead of tabs in my experience, and normally 4 spaces at
>> > > that. What do you all think about changing this?
>> >
>> > In general we want to conform to Apache standard/best practices. This
>> > sounds tricky to automate. Are there tools?
>> >
>>
>> It's pretty simple to automate this using standard unix tooling. I will
>> take care of this. I will also add support for checkstyle, so that the
>> maven build process will fail if tabs have been added to the code.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > That is it. The "JP" code is actually all the code contributed to the
>> > project by various parties all of whom executed an Apache 2.0 license
>> > agreement, other than the work done at AT&T.
>> >
>>
>> Ok thanks for the clarification.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > General comment: I have probably spent more time than anyone else in
>> > OpenAz browsing the Apache and in particular the Incubator pages.
>> > Unfortunately, I have found the documentation to be hard to find,
>> > incomplete and in some cases self-contradictory. I have found documents
>> > which appear to describe current standard practice, but are labeled
>> > preliminary or draft. In other cases I located a useful document, but
>> the
>> > page structure was so unintuitive (to me) that it took considerable
>> effort
>> > to find it again a few days later. I also have had trouble in some cases
>> > determining what applies to Apache overall and what only to the
>> Incubator.
>> >
>> > Now I have worked for the last 15 years in standards organizations (on
>> > behalf of my employers) so I am well aware that Apache is a volunteer
>> > organization and I understand the limitations this presents. I freely
>> admit
>> > that I don't have the time (or knowledge) to fix many of these problems
>> or
>> > even to systematically identify them.
>> >
>> > So what I am requesting is not a comprehensive solution. However,
>> > especially for the benefit of other members of the project who are even
>> > less familiar than me with Apache practices and procedures, it would be
>> > very helpful if one of the mentors (or any knowledgeable person on this
>> > list) could post a list of the most useful links or for common
>> procedures
>> > that come up frequently. I am never in favor of make work, so it this
>> > information already exists, just point me to it.
>> >
>>
>> These links may or may not be helpful:
>>
>> http://community.apache.org/
>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
>>
>> Feel free to ask anything more specific. Developing at Apache is actually
>> pretty simple IMO :-)  The main goal we have here is to start building a
>> community around OpenAZ so that we can exit from the incubator to become
>> an
>> Apache top level project some time in the future. So once we get the issue
>> tracking system up and running, I encourage all of you to start creating
>> JIRAs describing the stuff you are working on, or want to work on in the
>> future.
>>
>> Remember that to exit the incubator you will have to add new committers to
>> the project, so the more open we are, and the more we make it easier to
>> get
>> people involved the better.
>>
>> You should feel free to commit any such work (reference the JIRA number in
>> the commit message so we can link the commit in the JIRA itself). If there
>> are any objections to the commit, then one of the developers will normally
>> reply to the commit message and we can hash it out via mailing list. Very
>> important to note that all decisions relating to the project MUST take
>> place / be recorded via public mailing list, and not offline.
>>
>> Colm.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hal
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Colm O hEigeartaigh
>> > >
>> > > Talend Community Coder
>> > > http://coders.talend.com
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Colm O hEigeartaigh
>>
>> Talend Community Coder
>> http://coders.talend.com
>>
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