Hi, I’ve created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7940 to track the improvements for the Contributing page. Feel free to chime in.
Cheers, Radu > On 13 Sep 2018, at 18:59, Stefan Seifert <sseif...@pro-vision.de> wrote: > > - our current contributing [1] page is very outdated - we have to update it > - search over all sling git repos is difficult currently - possible solutions > which all have some drawbacks > - search via https://sourcegraph.com - this does not seem to work properly > (does not find all occurences), perhaps needs to be rechecked > - git submodules - drawback is we need a module list file that to be updated > manually (Jenkins job would do, but ASF does not allow Jenkins job pushing > thinks to the git repo without having a real committer involved) > - repo-checkout all modules locally and search in filesystem - cumbersome for > a quick search > > - committer & contributor statistics can be found on: > http://demo.kibble.apache.org > - login with demo user > - set sub-filter to: sling-(?!site) > - (excluding sling-site to avoiding tons html file counting in the stats) > - be careful when merging external contributions into the sling codebase to > keep the authorship information of the contributor in git history > - define PR template in github with link to contribution hints in sling site, > annotation best practices etc. > - include manual steps to be checked before contributing that are not checked > by the build automatically > > stefan > > [1] https://sling.apache.org/contributing.html > >
