On 23.07.2015 18:26, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > >>>> Concerns have been raised about the people behind the actual commits, >> that >>>> seems to be left open ? >>> I am not sure about this one: why there's a concern that people behind >> commits >>> aren't the same ppl as making the fixes? Am I reading this right? >> I think there are a couple things to consider here: >> >> 1. Off-list discussions, and commits made based on such discussions: >> There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The resultant code is >> public and can be reviewed. If the reasons behind a change are not >> clear, well, it's up to the devs to document the code and/or explain >> on the dev@ list; but forbidding off-list discussions implies >> forbidding hackathons and ApacheCons, for example. > > My question was more to do with losing historical detail by squashing > commits. Squashing commits has the tendency to hide contributions as > well. I think we have a good answer for that.
I'd rather not state my opinion about squashing commits here; it's not printable. > As far as off-list discussions are concerned, this is still a very big > issue for me. Off-list discussions and design work is not forbidden, but > it must be reflected back to the mailing list. I agree in principle but have to object to the "must": it's "should". Obviously it's good practice to post the outcome of offline chats to the dev@ list for further discussion. On the other hand, I've not seen any major feature appear in the Ignite code base without dev@ list discussion. > With Ignite, I worry that such discussions are happening (they must be, by > geography and time zone alone) but are not being reflected back to the > mailing list or to the JIRA. It is not even clear when a bug is closed > whether there was a code fix or not. I've put my thoughts on Jira usage into another post. -- Brane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
