Ok getting the ball rolling on documenting this formally for the proposed special meeting next week... Please add points / comment where you feel necessary, we need help fleshing this out...
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Managing+Release+and+Integration+Cycles Mark On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Tim Donohue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robyn, > > Thanks for the thoughts, though I worry we are in a place of "circular > dependencies" here. > > Essentially, the discussion of Committers rights that came up in > yesterday's Dev Mtg was the result of trying to determine how best to > begin to merge some GSoC projects (those which are deemed "ready" for > broader release) into Trunk in preparation for DSpace 1.7. > > Mark Diggory's proposal was to actually have GSoC students help with > that code merge into Trunk. But, as students are not "Committers", they > currently cannot be given rights to Trunk (under our current > 'policies'). The idea was to bring this up as a broader question, as a > Special Topic meeting next week, and try and determine what to do in > this scenario. Obviously, this proposal then leads to other questions of > how we may view committer rights. > > On the other hand, you are correct that looking at Modularization & > Asynchronous releases also affects committer rights discussions. > Unfortunately, because GSoC is beginning to wrap up, we need to make a > decision on the GSoC question soon, if we want the students' involvement. > > So -- I'm agreeing with you on your point -- but also realizing the > tight time constraints on GSoC. We may be forced to make a decision on > the GSoC parts first, and then revisit committer rights again during > discussions of modularization & asynchronous releases. > > If anyone else has other ideas on all this, I'd love to hear them! > > - Tim > > > SideNote: for those who want to catch up on this discussion, see the > notes/transcript from our Dev Mtg yesterday: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DevMtg+2010-07-21 > > On 7/22/2010 3:19 AM, TAYLOR Robin wrote: >> Having completely forgotten about yesterdays developers meeting (doh >> !) I just read the log and was interested in the chat about committer >> rights etc. I don't want to preempt any further discussion but just >> wanted to say that it might be logical to have the discussion about >> modularisation and asynchronous releases before the discussion on >> committing to trunk. The envisaged shape of the svn repo might affect >> how we view committer rights eg if Sword lived in its own module with >> its own release cycle then people might be less concerned about an >> individual with an interest in Sword having commit rights just to >> that module. >> >> Cheers, Robin. >> >> >> Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel > -- Mark R. Diggory Head of U.S. Operations - @mire http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
