Is it necessary to be assigned a role? Surely once you've signed the
agreement once (you only need to do it once in a year, right?), then
for any team in which you are not a lead, if you try to contribute,
you can automatically classified as a developer. No?

On 6/28/11, Jim Grisanzio <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi ... I realize parts of the app are not optimal with respect to the
> previous app, but we had other constraints to consider. We had to build
> the app this way to meet corporate requirements for security and
> auditing. Also, users need a specific role (Leader/Developer) and a
> specific agreement (Oracle Contributor Agreement for the community or
> Oracle Employee Agreement for employees) to upload reviews.
>
> Jim
>
> On 6/28/11 10:49 AM, Vladimir Marek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So, previously we had rsync, now we have web based access. Let me try to
>> describe why I think it's not move in the right direction.
>>
>> a) rsync was simple
>> Not hard to setup. Just account on opensolaris.org and manage your ssh
>> keys
>>
>> b) fast
>> 20 seconds to upload a webrev?
>>
>> c) command line - simple to automate
>> well, I had a script which uploaded me the webrev automatically to
>> cr.opensolaris.org . Just a single word 'wxwebrev' and all the magic
>> happened which told me url for my new webrev.
>>
>> d) accessible
>> If I wanted to upload a webrev, all I needed was a terminal
>>
>>
>> Instead now we'll have
>>
>>
>> a) Account on opensolaris.org, for each project you have to ask leader
>> to add you as developer (I haven't found yet how)
>>
>> b) don't know yet (cr.opensolaris.org does not think I'm worthy yet),
>> but you have to open a browser, find project and there will be few
>> clicks more to upload a webrev
>>
>> c) every time you make user click, god kills a kitten. Remember that.
>> And every time you want to automate gui you must enslave monkey. Sure
>> eventually I could write wget/curl wrapper to upload the webrev using
>> http, but why bother?
>>
>> d) I'm making my changes on a remote Solaris server. My notebook is
>> using Windows. So I'll have to find a way to transfer the webrev from
>> Solaris to Windows (or other devices I may use) and then I'll be able to
>> upload using some browser. Accessible? Hardly. Slow? Sure.
>>
>>
>> I have no say in how cr.opensolaris.org will work. But why should I use
>> that instead of ~/public_html inside Oracle network?
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what was the motivation to make uploading of webrevs
>> harder? Let me guess, make reviewing harder by forcing people to use
>> some web interface instead of mailinglist? If yes, I'm starting to see
>> the pattern ...
>>
>> Cheers
>
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