Re: Beam's recent community development work

2018-10-24 Thread Kenneth Knowles
Hello! (limiting prior thread to just comdev) It has been quite some time, including a bit of parental leave for me, but I would like to make this a more easy to link blog post. There was the comment "the dev@community.a.o team can give you access". Can this happen? What should I do? What are

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-10-24 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi all, well of course there will be off-list development, if something new is donated to the ASF. I guess Myrle's point is, that for an existing project, features that are communicated and implemented off-list and are brought back after some time is damaging. I fully agree with that

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-10-24 Thread Alex Harui
This is just a nitpick, but it is the subject line that is bothering me. Having a "no large code drops" mantra is not the same as a "limit off-list collaboration" mantra which is different from a "no off-list development" mantra. For Flex, Adobe made something like 5 large code drops. It

Re: Note for me: order triple the amount of big Apache feather stickers next time ...

2018-10-24 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 13. September 2018 15:44:01 MESZ schrieb Christofer Dutz : >After doing a short version of my "Earning money with Open-Source >Involvement" talk, they are usually really interested and thank us for >helping them learn something they think is really cool and which they >never would have

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-10-24 Thread Myrle Krantz
Hey all, I'd like to invite anyone with relevant positive or negative experiences with off-list development or large code drops to share those experiences. The ASF policy of "no off-list development" is implemented in a wide variety of ways in various communities, but there are still may be some