Too bad that Github cannot fork mercurial repos. It would be interesting
to see the real number of pull requests such a fork would gain. Maybe
Dalibor is right and we would end up with zero? ;-)
-Markus
From: Tomas Mikula [mailto:tomas.mik...@gmail.com]
Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 23:05
To: Markus KARG
Cc: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
The review process for external contributions does not even have to be
different from the internal review process. There can be a virtual
organization on GitHub called "Oracle CLA signatories". After a pull
request has been reviewed, all that the OpenJFX committer has to do before
merging is to check whether the contributor is a member of this
organization.
Tomas
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Markus KARG <mar...@headcrashing.eu>
wrote:
We should ask ourselfs whether we want more contributions or not. We will
not get them until we change something. Most contributors in the Open
Source just want to drop a bug report or a feature or two, and multiplied
by the number of those guys, this is a lot of stuff. Only few contributors
are willing to stay for long time, and only for those it makes sense to
have the complex rules. For example, I do not see why we cannot have a
dedicated full time "Community Officer" who simply collects the
contributions, reviews it, applies the needed checks and rules and all that
instead of asking everybody to follow a complex process? That would ensure
the quality, but not for the cost of losing contributors.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hervé Girod [mailto:herve.gi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 20:19
To: Markus KARG
Cc: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
Things are not different for Apache projects. Google does not accept any
external contributions. The Linux kernel development is very tightly
controlled. We should stop considering that widespread open source policies
are only a problem with JavaFX. These policies are in place for a reason.
Hervé
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 1, 2015, at 20:13, Markus KARG <mar...@headcrashing.eu> wrote:
I wonder why I was able to jointly assign my copyright with a lot of
other
open source projects without having to sign papers, sent them in by fax,
wait for a written agreement, and pray to get a JIRA account... ;-)
See, I talked to a real lot of former JavaFX contributors in the past
weeks
(visited some European JUGs in 2015), and *virtually everybody* told me
that
he is really unsatisfied with the fact that he cannot directly file to
JIRA
anymore or AT LEAST vote and comment on existing tickets. Is the JavaFX
team
clear about how many contributors you lost by that policy? I really
wonder
whether you see the reality there outside of Oracle. People stopped
reporting bugs! This is a real problem for JavaFX. You should act. Now.
-Markus
-----Original Message-----
From: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On
Behalf Of
dalibor topic
Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 19:06
To: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
On 01.12.2015 18:35, Markus KARG wrote:
With respect to TeamFX, the better question is: Are there plans to
further
open the project so third party has an easier channel to contribute
without
the hazzle of contributor agreements
"Like many other open-source communities, the OpenJDK Community requires
Contributors to jointly assign their copyright on contributed code." as
http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ wisely says.
There is no good reason to change that.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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