All On 9 November 2017 at 20:57, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez < juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again^3 > > was about to begin to write this quarter's report and was thinking in ways > we could foster contributions, so I'd like to throw them here to see if any > of them looks ok-ish: > > * open commitership to everyone. Other projects, like f.ex., Apache Commons > have decided to open commitership to all Apache committers by default. > Apache Subversion also has a slightly different take on this which more or > less goes as anybody asking for committership is made a committer with > his/her first commits being reviewed/mentored. On both cases, if you're a > new committer and wish to commit something (duh) you usually ask first for > review and/or open a PR > > * use github as the primary repo. We're currently using ASF's git repo as > the canonical repo with a read-only copy at github, but infra offers from a > while back now the opposite possibility: work with github repo, which sends > the commits automatically to the ASF's repo, which gets then read-only. It > woukd treat Github as the canonical source (a copy on ASF's repo would > still be made), which allows the PRs and issues to be a bit more convenient > (there are still some things not supported due to the Github's coarse > permission structure). It would be required all committers to use Github's > 2FA [0] so once a vote in the project is taken, we should file a ticket on > the INFRA JIRA so committers could run through the Gitbox syncing [1] to > matchup ASF IDs and Github IDs. > > * Release at least every four months. Master is deliverable, and it's been > getting small fixes and updates every now and then so why not release every > (let's say) 4 months? They would be minor releases, but they still would be > releases, which would make JSPWiki a little better for end-users so, again, > why not? There could be exceptions if needed (i.e. master broken or no code > pushed since last release), but I think it would be a good thing(tm) > > does any of them seem reasonable? > > > br, > juan pablo > > [0] - > https://help.github.com/articles/providing-your-2fa-authentication-code/ > [1] - https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/ > -- Col
