On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Edd, sorry, I misunderstood your email, I thought you already had supplied
> a patch, yes, please do so to JIRA:  https://issues.apache.org/**
> jira/browse/ROL <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL>, also include
> the folder changes so Roller is more GitHub friendly.  Thankfully, I'm now
> having more time for Roller.
>
> I regret that we are on GitHub -- this team is too small to maintain both
> SVN and GitHub


Ideally, we should not have to do anything to maintain both SVN and Git
because the ASF Infrastructure team takes care of the mirrors.



> and I don't want others to fall into the energy-wasting trap that you fell
> into (of making pull requests to a read-only GitHub repo instead of using
> the JIRA process).


I agree. To help prevent that we should update the Roller "how to
contribute" page to let people know how the GitHub mirrors are supposed to
work, and point them to these pages for details:

    http://git.apache.org/
    http://www.apache.org/dev/git.html



> But apparently 13 others have already forked Roller on GitHub, so I'm not
> sure we can get rid of it (indeed, it seems virtually every other Apache
> project is on it anyway, we might not have a choice.)


I think that's actually a good thing and I'm one of those forkers, BTW. I
created a fork called Rollarcus to learn more about GitHub and to
experiment with some ideas about the Roller code base. Haven't done much
with a recently.

In my opinion, anything we can do to help people use our code and to
encourage them to contribute back is a good thing so I think the mirrors
are a good idea.

- Dave

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