On May 5, 2011 8:06 AM, "Mark Diggory" <mdigg...@atmire.com> wrote:
>
> It would make for a better "developer discussion".
>
> On May 5, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Robin Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just wanted to bring up one area that we didn't really touch on in the
> > developer meeting viz. the management of modules. For the sake of
> > argument lets assume we did move much of the code into discrete external
> > modules, are we in agreement about how we would manage these modules ?
> >
> > 1. Who would have commit rights to the various modules ? Bear in mind
> > that currently more than just the committers have commit rights to some
> > modules. Not a bad thing in itself but something to consider.
>
> I am starting to see how GIT can benefit us in this area. I see two
orthogonal features of GitHub.
>
> a.) Separate Repositories: have have separate Git Repos in the DSpace
Project to manage rights on mirrors what I was trying to attain in
scm.dspace.org modules space, we could start to consider defining two types
of repos "supported" and "experimental" which would take us a long way
towards answering the question of how we treat modules that dspace is
dependent on.
>
> b.) Upstream commit authors are retained: likewise, the commits in git
that get pushed into the repository better capture the contribution effort
of those working on it upstream clones regardless of their commit rights in
the the github master repo.
>
> > 2. Who would decide when a module should be released ?
>
> Those who have a stake-hold in its development and maintenance.
>
> >
> > 3. Who would do the release ?
> >
> > I think this goes to the heart of how we as committers see the project
> > developing. Does it remain under control of the existing committers
> > group or does it become more of an Eclipse type framework where
> > different interest groups maintain and manage their own modules.
>
> I assume you mean the "Product Release", it'd be the same folks who still
do it now.
>
> >
> > Cheers, Robin.
> >
> > Ps. I restricted this to the committers list but if anyone feels it
> > should get a wider audience then I'll repost to dspace-devel.
>
> Please do, its actually not getting to all those stakeholders being posted
here.
>
> Mark
>
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