Not sure if anyone else here still deals with the incubator mailing list spamŠ ;)
Looks like more projects are looking for GitHub-like flows. Sounds like Jake is part of the infra team, and looking for feedback? Cheers. -- Ken Wallis Senior Product Manager - WebWorks BlackBerry 650-620-2404 -----Original Message----- From: Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> Reply-To: "gene...@incubator.apache.org" <gene...@incubator.apache.org>, "jfarr...@apache.org" <jfarr...@apache.org> Date: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 6:39 AM To: "gene...@incubator.apache.org" <gene...@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: best development methodology for Apache git? >Hey Sergio >The Apache mirrors on Github are by request and run off from >git.apache.org. >Anyone wanting to have a svn or git project mirrored needs to submit an >infra ticket and it can get setup. > >As for the Github workflows that are starting to be used, I am not a >proponent of them. These workflows are not ideal as they repositories are >not under any Asf control and infra can not help if there are any issues, >its up to the project to take care of its own. Also with the JClouds and >now Usergrid projects using this flow adds a lot of overhead for >initial contributions as they have in the workflow the requirement to >ensure an ICLA are on file for the contributor. Most committers do not >have >access to see the status of this. Also since these projects are not >working >directly against the primary repository it is up to them to ensure that >committers are the only ones submitting code to the primary repository and >then syncing that code at some point over to the ASF repositories in order >to make a release. > >If we are not providing the right tooling for projects and they are >seeking >outside means then I would love to work and help make the correct tools >available to make workflows easier and ensure security and policies are >being met. > >-Jake > > > > > >On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Sergio Fernández < >sergio.fernan...@salzburgresearch.at> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 03/02/14 10:42, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:47 PM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The Phoenix project has recently come into incubation from it's former >>>> life >>>> as a Github project. I believe other projects have made this same >>>> transition, so I'm looking to get some advice from them... >>>> >>> >>> CouchDB has documented their Git workflow at >>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ContributorWorkflow >>> >> >> In Marmotta we adopted a Gitflow as workflow, you can find the >> documentation at the web site: >> >> http://marmotta.apache.org/development.html#Source_code >> >> But we'd be really interested on extend that to github-like pull >>requests, >> in order to make easier to get contributions from new people. I think >> that's what James is asking, and what jclouds has implemented somehow. >>But >> I miss some more details to actually know how they do it, specially >>taking >> into account that many repos at github are not properly synced. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Sergio Fernández >> Senior Researcher >> Knowledge and Media Technologies >> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH >> Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria >> T: +43 662 2288 318 | M: +43 660 2747 925 >> sergio.fernan...@salzburgresearch.at >> http://www.salzburgresearch.at >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >>
