On 03/10/2013 02:56 PM, Dave wrote:
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
If you can phrase that properly, great. The contribution page (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/How+to+contribute+to+Roller) presently doesn't mention GitHub at all so it can't be pushing people into using it. I suspect however, the moment we advertise GitHub and the fact that it's read only (in order to keep people on SVN when they have patches to submit), people will be clamoring to make GitHub RW just like our SVN is, and then we'll have yet another administrative headache--trying to keep updates between two separate source control systems in sync. Unfortunately, the more ways we have to do the same thing, the more administrative B.S. we have taking away from development.
Glen
