On 10 November 2010 15:15, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2010 9:59:11 am James Strachan wrote: >> On 10 November 2010 14:51, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > For most of the people on this list, it ISN'T a big deal. We deal with >> > svn and mvn every day. For others, it could be. >> >> Given 99% of all our documentation and web content is developed by >> committers or folks who are capable of editing text files and using >> git/svn, I'd rather use a system that helps the 99% be more effective. >> >> Maybe you should just help out this one CXF person & show them how to >> fork & commit to github (its very easy), then you can easily pull >> their commits from there? > > Umm.. no. Pulling branches from github is NOT, at this point, an acceptable > way of getting content into an Apache product. They would still need to > create a patch and attach it to JIRA with the "grant" checkbox checked.
Whatever happens folks have to raise a JIRA and click the "grant" checkbox. I fail to see why a link to a specific commit (i.e. a link to a number of patches) is any less suitable than a number of patch files being attached in place to the JIRA. Got anything specific to back this up or is it just that we've not done it before? Patch files are a total PITA for both the person contributing and the person applying the patch. (They usually break, get out of sync, have whitespace issues and frequently have the wrong path information in them & often have problems with new/renamed/deleted files). If this discussion really is about being a "community issue" and making it easy for both folks to contribute and for committers to apply those contributions, I'd rather we figure out this issue of using links to git commits as an alternative to patch files on JIRAs - this could make a *massive* difference to both getting contributions and more effectively applying them IMHO. Helping scm-novices contribute to documentation (which they've never really done so far on Camel anyway) seems quite irrelevant in comparison. -- James ------- FuseSource Email: ja...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: jstrachan Blog: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration
