I don't get how local forks under e4 umbrella provide much added value compared to GitHub. It requires contributors to ask for committer access in order to have this, and the e4 project is kind of an exception to the committer-ship rules set up by the community. Also, are we sure that at that point of time when people are doing an experiment, they need to be at Eclipse.org and take advantage of the governance? Or is it something that becomes interesting only when contributing back to Platform Core? In later case, then there is no reason for a project to get into e4. I'm not advocating against e4, I'm more trying to find out more efficient way to bring innovation from non-committers into Platform, and IMHO, that should involve any contributor able to work on a local fork. It's already technically possible, but I believe it would make sense to document it more officially in an "experiment" section Platform's contribution guide where we can explain that either contributor can start a fork (on GitHub or wherever) and then contribute back via Gerrit when ready, or if they want governance from day 1, to consider getting under the e4 umbrella and either work on the sandbox or ask for a fork.
Something like ``` == How to contribute == === Experimenting with a fork === While you're still in experimentation phase and your code is not ready to be proposed as a contribution, we recommend you to work with a fork of the Git repository and to work with your local branches. This process will make it easier for you to turn your experiment into a proposal as a Gerrit patch when ready. Several services do offer Git repository hosting. If you choose GitHub, you can start by forking the [ https://github.com/eclipse?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=platform&type=&language= GitHub mirror] of your choice and work with branches on your forked repo; do '''NOT''' use pull-requests! If you'd like to already take advantage of the Eclipse Fondation governance offer as you're experimenting, please consider getting in touch with the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/e4-dev/ e4 project] which can offer you either a sandbox repo, or a fork of a Platform repo to work with at Eclipse.org. ``` What do you think? -- Mickael Istria Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/> developer, at Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/> community
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