That, Ean, says more about github than SVN. See https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/users/ofbiz and https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/graph/ofbiz showing a totally different story.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Ean Schuessler <[email protected]> wrote: > That raises another irritating thing about the JIRA SVN workflow vs GIT > pull requests. > > If you look at the contributor graph on GitHub for OFBiz you will see > that it currently has only 3 contributors. Foremost this is because the > project committers have mostly not configured their Apache addresses into > their GitHub accounts. Secondly, however, it is caused by the fact that > all JIRA committed patches will show the name of the person who merged > the patch rather than its original author. > > https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/graphs/contributors > > We can make up stories about why this is desirable but I think any honest > assessment would conclude that it is an inconvenience at best and a hazard > at worst. Eventually if these dots are not connected the origins of some > OFBiz code could become as mysterious as the early CVS commits. With the > GIT pull request workflow we would not only know who wrote the code but > would still know who performed the merge. We could also sign the commits > so that their origin is cryptographically confirmed. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gil Portenseigne" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: move to git. > > > Yes, but these are commiters contributions, i mean non-commiters one > should go > > thru jira. >
