Whenever I want to know who "owns" a piece of code, I just look at the svn history to see who has been modifying it.
James Dyer E-Commerce Systems Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: David Smiley (@MITRE.org) [mailto:dsmi...@mitre.org] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:49 AM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Active 4.x branches? Those are good points Yonik. I guess I don't know what to think anymore. Yonik Seeley-4 wrote > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:24 AM, David Smiley (@MITRE.org) > < > DSMILEY@ > > wrote: >> Maybe we should have a >> roster somewhere of parts of the codebase that have an owner. > > Taking ownership is a mindset, and is very different from any kind of > recognized "having ownership". > We shouldn't tag areas as "owned" by someone, as that could discourage > others getting involved in that area. > It might also encourage deference to the "owner", which would also be > a bad thing. We sometimes naturally defer to someone with more > experience in an area than we have, but it should continue to be on an > informal case-by-case basis. > >> It could be >> useful to people not "in the know" on who to contact > > The right contact point is this mailing list. > There's already way to much off-list (and off IRC channel) > collaboration that goes on IMO. > > -Yonik > http://lucidworks.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@.apache > For additional commands, e-mail: > dev-help@.apache ----- Author: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Active-4-x-branches-tp4022609p4023246.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
