Yes, I will take a pass tonight.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Did you have any suggested changes to the forks section wording to clear up
> my intent for that section?
>
> I'd like to start wrapping this up and move towards making it "official"
>
> Everyone else,
>
> Time to shout out if you have any issues / suggested improvements on the
> content
>
> - Stephen
>
> On Friday, 2 August 2013, Stephen Connolly wrote:
>
>> On 2 August 2013 16:07, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', 'bri...@infinity.nu');>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the bulk of this is pretty good. On the fork section,
>>> specifically:
>>>
>>> "
>>> As soon as changes in that
>>> fork are identified which should be brought back to the project those
>>> changes should be introduced into at least a branch hosted on the Apache
>>> Maven
>>> source control in order to facilitate the easier review by the community.
>>>
>>> The PMC should encourage by example the early committing of changes from a
>>> fork back to Apache Maven source control.
>>> "
>>>
>>> This seems to want to compel code to be brought back as a
>>> responsibility, I don't think we need to spell that out.
>>
>>
>> This is why I say "as soon as ... are identified"
>>
>> The wording could be clearer... if somebody can figure out a better way to
>> say it.
>>
>> Basically, as soon as you say something like... "Oh commit 1a2b3d4e, we
>> really need to get that into Maven itself, it's too good to be in our
>> fork"... you should be trying to hasten getting that commit into Maven
>> itself.... and if you are on the PMC and one of your commits is one that
>> you say this of... you should just commit it back.
>>
>> Until you realise that a commit is one that you want to push to Maven, hey
>> it's your work... whatever... but as soon as you identify the change as
>> being one that should be at Maven, as a PMC member you are expected to try
>> and get it into Maven quickly so that others working on the fork see that
>> this is the example by which the PMC leads.
>>
>> If you can think of a clearer way to express that than my wording (which
>> since you are not getting my intended meaning must therefore be lacking)
>> please update.
>>
>> The section
>>> about the downsides to not doing so and attempting to do it later is
>>> really the core of the concerns... the extra diligence required to
>>> consume large bodies of work is bigger. That doesn't mean that code
>>> contributions are inherently bad just because they were developed
>>> elsewhere, it's just harder to pull in.
>>>
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Stephen Connolly
>> <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have updated the project-roles with my thoughts resulting from the
>> > healthy debate on the list and some debates elsewhere.
>> >
>> > If anyone wants to look at the resulting Work In Progress document as a
>> > whole:
>> >
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/project-roles.md?revision=1509594&view=markup
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > -Stephen
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: <steph...@apache.org>
>> > Date: 2 August 2013 10:52
>> > Subject: svn commit: r1509594 - /maven/site/trunk/content/markdown/
>> > project-roles.md
>> > To: comm...@maven.apache.org
>> >
>> >
>> > Author: stephenc
>> > Date: Fri Aug 2 09:52:11 2013
>> > New Revision: 1509594
>> >
>> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1509594
>> > Log:
>> > After a lengthy discussion on the users@maven list and some
>> > side discussions on members@apache, I think the following changes
>> > are more in line with what we should be seeking as responsibilities
>> > of the PMC.
>> >
>> > * Forks are not bad... letting changes stack up in the fork is bad
>> > but more from a 'it will be hard to review' point of view...
>> > similarly using a fork to get external contributions complicates
>> > the tracablity
>> >
>> > * We are not obligated to promote other ASF projects... but there
>> > should be a symmetry in how that lack of obligation plays out
>> >
>> > * I identified some
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
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