I still think this is a neat idea for people testing patches, but i think github helps developers pull patches around on their own as well.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > The other option is what I suggested to you. We can apply patches with Husdon > on services.wocommunity.org and made patched builds that people can try out. > If the patches is ok and a couple of people says that the patch is not > creating problems, Wonder committers can apply the patch in the master. If we > go the git way, we can make builds of forks too. > >> I'm thinking I will setup a git svn clone on github for Wonder ... For now >> the master would still be the sourceforge SVN one, but this will allow >> people to fork and contribute changes, which we can pull back into the SVN >> version selectively. >> >> ms >> >> On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:44 PM, David LeBer wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2010-09-11, at 1:24 PM, David BON wrote: >>> >>>> Today, to contribute is either writing documentation, doing a screencast >>>> or submit patches. Imo, only some WO masters can give back to the >>>> community a whole new framework (the commiters). >>>> >>>> Speaking for myself, I've got some ideas to extend existing frameworks but >>>> I'm not even sure that there are good ideas, and if so that the way I >>>> could implement it will comply to some underground (because not clearly >>>> exposed anywhere) development standard or philosophy of those frameworks. >>> >>> I would suggest implementing your changes and talking about them to the >>> world. Unfortunately the current centralized repo setup makes this more >>> difficult than it could be, but if your changes have merit they will be >>> recognized, if they don't and you get feedback to that effect, as long as >>> you respond and learn, your stature as an active member of the community >>> will be. >>> >>>> I also believe that some contributions could (only) be done by a _team_ of >>>> volunteers. How the community organize today (if there _is_ a way of >>>> proceeding) such a team work? >>> >>> Most current contributor are either lone wolfs or point people fronting a >>> (possibly hidden) team. Personally, we work on stuff that has value for our >>> clients right now. If it looks useful to the wider world I try and >>> contribute it, or talk about it, or make a screen cast about it, or write a >>> blog post about it. >>> >>> I think that if you have an idea that requires a team, you are best to >>> create a focused proof of concept and then use that to recruit a group of >>> people who will have a vested personal interest in having it fleshed out. >>> With this stuff, where you are relying on volunteer contributions, my >>> belief is that organic growth is always a better road to success than large >>> upfront requirements. >>> >>>> Regards. >>>> >>>> David B. >>>> >>>> Le 11 sept. 10 à 16:49, Mike Schrag a écrit : >>>> >>>>> the best thing the community can do to increase the number of people >>>>> contributing is to contribute. don't start a committee to investigate the >>>>> creation of a project to contribute to the community. just contribute. >>> >>> ;david >>> >>> -- >>> David LeBer >>> Codeferous Software >>> 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' >>> site: http://codeferous.com >>> blog: http://davidleber.net >>> profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld >>> -- >>> Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: >>> http://tacow.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/mschrag%40pobox.com >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
