FWIW: I have started a related WIP page in confluence, to capture all relating aspects/issues. See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=145724011
Best regards, Pierre Smits *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:25 PM Pierre Smits <pierresm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently we saw some postings in various threads how to deal with commits > from contributors coming via pull requests in Github. > If I understand it correctly, the issue we're dealing with has to do with > the commit message (as defined in > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+commit+message+template > ). > After a code contribution has been accepted by a committer, this commit > message appears in: > > 1. the OFBiz repo > 2. a posting to the commit@ mailing list > 3. in the referenced JIRA ticket (as a comment, and in the commit > section, see e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10954) > > Elements of the commit message are also used in the regularly occurring > blog posts of the project. > > With our repositories available via Github, we can expect that more and > more contributors work within their local clones, and publish their code > changes (commits) in their own public forks on Github and from there issue > a pull request to get these contributions evaluated by community members > and when good incorporated into the OFBiz repositories. > > A pull request can contain one or more commits (from the contributor - or > in git parlance: the author). > > So, when the commit message by the contributor (author) of each of his > commits is formatted in accordance with the commit-message template there > is nothing that stands in the way to take it to the next step. Which is the > evaluation of the contribution by other community members. > > Is my assessment so far correct? > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* > *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* > Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer > *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) > since 2008* > Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer >
