Hello,

I would like to propose that we need a Contrib group.

There has been recent push to migrate many contributions into remote modules. I 
believe this is premature.

A remote module is a good solution for medium to large contributions which are 
maintained by contributors. However, the current system does not leverage CDash 
or Gerrit. There is no easy way to review and comment on remote module code. 
Gerrit can not do builds for cross platform testing, and the night build 
systems does not easily test these modules. Yes, the module can be enable in 
certain cases, but this is not a sustainable practice.

Also for smaller contribution of just a class or two, the burden of code 
maintenance in increased when compared to just having it in the repository.

I would like to propose that we create a Contrib group, were these contributed 
remote modules and internal modules can exist. The goal here is that users can 
more easily turn on all the contributed modules if needed. Also I believe it 
would be do able to an option to our nightly build script, so that after the 
normal build a separate configure/build/test/coverage/submit can be done on the 
group.

This is my initial thought how how we can improve the current situation before 
it gets too unmanageable.


Brad
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