On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:28:55 -0400, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Rather than host something outside Apache, I would rather see students
submit patches to Apache Jira issues. --It's good experience for how
many Apache projects incorporate contributions.
I can see the value in this, but speaking as someone that contributed a
fair amount of code without commit privileges, it's a sucky situation.
It's tantamount to asking the student to work on the code without an SCM
at all, which benefits no one. It's nothing ASF-specific but rather a
short-coming of a centralized SCM, such as Subversion.
I recommend that if we go this approach that we at least suggest using SVK
to the students. Incidentally, I started using SVK just this morning due
to the need to commit code while not connected to a server. Anyway,
because SVK interacts with subversion, students should be able to leverage
an SCM and contribute patches fairly easily. I do wonder how this falls
into the whole "development must be done in the open" stance Google has
taken.
--
Kevin
