The only issue I am really concerned about w provenance is pull requests from non ASF people that are brought in. Sometimes hard to track
On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > I just want to focus on the provenance question, but, really, you can > ignore me. I'm not trying to win an argument here, just leave some > ideas in the atmosphere. > > I see several speculative options here. > > 1) A contribution might live 'outside' for some period of time. When > the project decide to assimilate it, the contributor balls it up and > attaches it to a JIRA, or files an SGA. > > 2) Committers create branches in svn and apply interesting patches to > them. Lots more zoo-keeping. > > 3) When/if git goes fully-live at Apache, infra and the board allow us > to allow non-committers (with iclas) to contribute to non-trunk > branches. > > 4) The moral equivalent of a github 'pull' request is interpreted as > sufficient 'intent to contribute'. > > 5) (This is Greg Stein's idea, I think:) We lower the committer bar a > lot, but make a strong distinction between the trunk and other > branches. I'm not sure why we would want to be the first community to > try this trick.
