On Mar 10, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I don't think we need to worry about the RW issue because I don't think it's likely that infra will support it, and even if they did, we could opt out. I would love to see people clamoring for RW access to Roller via any SCM tho, and I wish there was an easy way to accept pull requests from GitHub. - Dave
