Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-26 Thread Disruptive Solutions
Ow and: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-user.html And not about tools... but they have implemented workflow... Op ma 23 dec. 2019 om 23:24 schreef Disruptive Solutions < disruptivesolution...@gmail.com>: > Did you look at https://www.atlassian.com/nl/software/crucible

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Disruptive Solutions
Did you look at https://www.atlassian.com/nl/software/crucible ?? And: https://www.perforce.com/solutions/static-analysis https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows The concept "The Centralized Workflow" was the "old" workflow, but now maybe the concept "Feature branching" is

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Brennan created a page in the Confluence for the workflow document. I > know that only committers can edit the Confluence wiki directly but > that is not a problem: Anyone can write some text and email it to this > list, and a committer can edit it into the Confluence page. Non committers

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Disruptive Solutions
+1 keep it simple Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 23 dec. 2019 om 17:06 heeft Sebastien Lorquet het > volgende geschreven: > > OK. > > That is too much email for me, I just cant follow and understand all these > discussions anymore. Almost 300 messages among multiple overlapping threads >

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Gregory Nutt
Brennan created a page in the Confluence for the workflow document. I know that only committers can edit the Confluence wiki directly but that is not a problem: Anyone can write some text and email it to this list, and a committer can edit it into the Confluence page. (Hint: People who particip

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:06 AM Sebastien Lorquet wrote: > > OK. > > That is too much email for me, I just cant follow and understand all these > discussions anymore. Almost 300 messages among multiple overlapping threads > full > of heated opinions in 2-3 days is insane. > > I just cant dedicat

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Gregory Nutt
I think the process should be as simple as possible, and improved later. Just select the absolute bare minimum that could start to work and discard everything else so this project can work again. Depends on what you mean by simple.  Using some less-than-simple tools can make the workflow ver

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Gregory Nutt
Agreed.. It is painful and awkward and I am not so optimistic at the moment.  We will have to give it more time and see if people and learn to cooperate in groups or not. Also, I did not see a notification that the BB repositories had been frozen. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nuttx/

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal - not so simple?

2019-12-23 Thread Sebastien Lorquet
OK. That is too much email for me, I just cant follow and understand all these discussions anymore. Almost 300 messages among multiple overlapping threads full of heated opinions in 2-3 days is insane. I just cant dedicate enough time reading any more of this. I have other things to do than tryin

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread Gregory Nutt
Two questions: 1 Who will apply the patches? 2 Can we use and merge a PR that has been reviewed? You are basically asking for the workflow requirements.

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread Duo Zhang
m: 张铎(Duo Zhang) [mailto:palomino...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 4:35 AM > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal > > For our Chinese people we do not think starting working when the > requirements are not very clear is a big r

RE: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread David Sidrane
: Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal For our Chinese people we do not think starting working when the requirements are not very clear is a big risk, this is what happens every day here. You can not plan everything so just have a try, if it does not work then just drop it and retry, no harm

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread Duo Zhang
For our Chinese people we do not think starting working when the requirements are not very clear is a big risk, this is what happens every day here. You can not plan everything so just have a try, if it does not work then just drop it and retry, no harm :) And in my experience, if we can not agree

Re: Signal to Noise (was RE: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal)

2019-12-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I was thinking about calling a vote on limiting the # of emails. IMO A vote will not help, it will make things worse, perhaps try discuss but most of all just try to be a little more considerate for people who are subscribers to this list. No hard rules just guidelines and consideration o

Signal to Noise (was RE: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal)

2019-12-23 Thread David Sidrane
Hi, >-Original Message- >From: Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com] >Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 1:09 AM >To: dev@nuttx.apache.org >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal >Hi, >> I would also suggest you try to slow down the conversa

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I would also suggest you try to slow down the conversation here and think a > little more about what you write, that way you get higher quality responses. It’s also allows more timid people and those who are not full time on this to speak up and get noticed. Some ASF people make a self im

RE: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread David Sidrane
Well Said! -Original Message- From: Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 1:02 AM To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal Hi, Apache has a concept of small reversible steps, if something can move the project

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Apache has a concept of small reversible steps, if something can move the project forward, try it out, it it doesn’t work or you find a problem need just make another small step in the right direction. Many many Apache projects use CTR (commit and review later) and have simple workflows an

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Brennan Ashton
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:18 PM Nathan Hartman wrote: > > Yesterday I wrote a detailed email giving the exact outline of what needs > to be in that workflow document. > > Do we really have no volunteers to bang out even a rough draft of that > document? > > You both sucked me in again... But thi

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
The danger of what is happening now is that it will become grandfathered in with no proper workflow in place, no proper criteria for processing changes, and no clear documentation that helps committers or the public to contribute. If that comes to pass, I think I would be forced to resign. Ap

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
The danger of what is happening now is that it will become grandfathered in with no proper workflow in place, no proper criteria for processing changes, and no clear documentation that helps committers or the public to contribute. We have to decline any attempt to include an test framework co

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 9:02 PM Gregory Nutt wrote: > > > But the #1 most critical thing facing this project is adopting even > > just the requirements for the workflow. None of the other issues have > > any significant importance > > > > So I have to be opposed to any obstacles that jeopardize

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
But the #1 most critical thing facing this project is adopting even just the requirements for the workflow.  None of the other issues have any significant importance So I have to be opposed to any obstacles that jeopardize or distract from the #1 priority thing. One of the dangers of dela

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
I will be stepping away from all further discussion on the work flow topic as I have soured on it and don't have a real vote beyond proposing it. You are lucky that you have that option.  I would too if it were possible.  This no way that anyone should have to waste there life. But the #1

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
I don't like it because it is not the workflow that has been discussed and I can never support a slam dunk of any workflow that is not described in the workflow requirements document. I will vote -1 if we cannot be assured that this this cannot become a disease that we cannot shake.  My propos

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Brennan Ashton
I proposed this because I think it is a solid flow and in alignment with other stable opensource projects that I contribute to including one under the FSF complexity. It is NOT a rush and I don't think it is out of line. Multiple +1 were given, so I don't think it's that far off what will work.

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
There are several things I don't like about this proposal: - It is in complete conflict with everything we have discussed about the commit workflow - I think is is suggest out of panic.  We have plenty of times to do things right or to do things better.  There will be no pressi

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
There are several things I don't like about this proposal: - It is in complete conflict with everything we have discussed about the commit workflow - I think is is suggest out of panic.  We have plenty of times to do things right or to do things better.  There will be no pressing nee

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
I don't think that were will be much that has to be acted on during the holidays. And, in any event, I would rather see a backlog of work build up than to to see an interim, wrong workflow put in place. Doing things right is more important that doing things quickly. I would add that I do no

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
Let's get everyone's thoughts on the table I suppose that we should keep the discussion for 72 hours then call the vote.  We need to allow time for everyone to comment and with the holidays, we may not be able to get good feedback. Should we still call a vote if people are not participatin

Re: [DISCUSS] Simple Workflow Proposal

2019-12-22 Thread Gregory Nutt
1) The timeline. Two weeks over the holiday to come to a formal agreement is going to be tough and I also don't think just because we have a path forward people will stop caring about proposing a better solution.  From what I'm seeing the longer term proposal will likely get into the weeds of