+1 for PR’s but if we start using them I think we should get them sent to 
commits@ instead of the dev@ they are currently sent to.

-Jeremiah

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Andres de la Peña <adelap...@stratio.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 to GitHub PRs, I think it will make things easier.
> 
> El viernes, 26 de agosto de 2016, Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com>
> escribió:
> 
>> D'oh, forgot to explicitly state that I am +1 one on the github PR proposal
>> :)
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> 
>>> It seems to me we might get more contributions if we can lower the
>> barrier
>>> to participation. (see Jeff Beck's statement above)
>>> 
>>> +1 to Aleksey's sentiment about the Docs contributions.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 26/08/2016 17:11, Aleksey Yeschenko wrote:
>>>>> Mark, I, for one, will be happy with the level of GitHub integration
>>>> that Spark has, formal or otherwise.
>>>> 
>>>> If Cassandra doesn't already have it, that should be a simple request to
>>>> infra.
>>>> 
>>>>> As it stands right now, none of the committers/PMC members have any
>>>> control over Cassandra Github mirror.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which, among other things, means that we cannot even close the
>>>> erroneously opened PRs ourselves,
>>>>> they just accumulate unless the PR authors is kind enough to close
>>>> them. That’s really frustrating.
>>>> 
>>>> No PMC currently has the ability to directly close PRs on GitHub. This
>>>> is one of the things on the infra TODO list that is being looked at. You
>>>> can close them via a commit comment that the ASF GitHub tooling picks
>> up.
>>>> 
>>>> Mark
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> AY
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 26 August 2016 at 17:07:29, Mark Thomas (ma...@apache.org
>> <javascript:;>) wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 26/08/2016 16:33, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Historically we've insisted that people go through the process of
>>>> creating
>>>>>> a Jira issue and attaching a patch or linking a branch to demonstrate
>>>>>> intent-to-contribute and to make sure we have a unified record of
>>>> changes
>>>>>> in Jira.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But I understand that other Apache projects are now recognizing a
>>>> github
>>>>>> pull request as intent-to-contribute [1] and some are even making
>>>> github
>>>>>> the official repo, with an Apache mirror, rather than the other way
>>>>>> around. (Maybe this is required to accept pull requests, I am not
>>>> sure.)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Should we revisit our policy here?
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the moment, the ASF Git repo is always the master, with GitHub as a
>>>>> mirror. That allows push requests to be made via GitHub.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Infra is exploring options for giving PMCs greater control over GitHub
>>>>> config (including allowing GitHub to be the master with a golden copy
>>>>> held at the ASF) but that is a work in progress.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As far as intent to contribute goes, there does appear to be a trend
>>>>> that the newer a project is to the ASF, the more formal the project
>>>>> makes process around recording intent to contribute. (The same can be
>>>>> said for other processes as well like Jira config.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is worth noting that all the ASF requires is that there is an
>> intent
>>>>> to contribute. Anything that can be reasonably read that way is fine.
>>>>> Many PMCs happily accept patches sent to the dev list (although they
>> may
>>>>> ask them to be attached to issues more so they don't get forgotten
>> than
>>>>> anything else). Pull requests are certainly acceptable.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My personal recommendation is don't put more formal process in place
>>>>> than you actually need. Social controls are a lot more flexible than
>>>>> technical ones and generally have a much lower overhead.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [1] e.g. https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
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