+1 Upstream first is crucial. Happy to share sane strategies I've seen work in the past if folks are interested.
Ed On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Sauvageau, David <david.sauvag...@bell.ca> wrote: > Hi TSC members, > > I would like to bring to our attention one major opportunity for > improvement in the behaviour currently adopted by some of our community > members. > > I am observing a big number of very large commits (10’s of thousands of > lines of code in a single commit) which to me is a symptom of us not > working well as a community yet. In order to be successful, I believe > communities need to adopt an “Upstream first” approach, meaning that every > single day, the new code is committed upstream. We need to avoid the “we’ll > build it internally and then upstream the code” approach. This is the only > way we’ll get traction as a community rather than allowing individual > companies to push for internal agendas. > > With the current approach, it is very difficult for the community to start > contributing to ongoing projects, or even to know what’s coming up on the > projects as code is pushed by major chunks with no visibility on the > roadmap. If we continue supporting such behaviour this will slow down the > adoption of ONAP in production environments. > > I believe it is our responsibility as the TSC to change that behaviour, > first by educating different organizations how open source should be > handled, but probably also by putting technical mechanisms to prevent such > a behaviour (e.g. Limit commit size; enforce multi-company reviews before > merge, allow for unfinished code in the repo …, any suggestions welcome). > > I do not have a specific solution to propose, but I would ask the TSC to > open up the dialogue on such behaviour. The Amsterdam release is quickly > coming and I believe this needs to be addressed asap. > > I’d like to discuss the topic tomorrow during TSC. > > Comments, anyone? > > Thanks, > > > > _______________________________________________ > ONAP-TSC mailing list > ONAP-TSC@lists.onap.org > https://lists.onap.org/mailman/listinfo/onap-tsc > >
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