On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 7:51 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Recent events have made me reconsider some decisions I made. I threw > off the single committer mantle when I saw the abuse of privilege in the > repositories. If the PPMC agrees to it, I will take up that role again. > > But let's be frank. Here is what I think that means: > > * I would be sole committer of changes. The repositories would have > to be treated as read-only just as back in the Bitbucket days. > * I would grandfather in the i.MXRT changes. > * I will decline all workflow related changes until workflow > requirements are established (that is my only real motivation for > suggesting this: To make certain that we have proper requirements > in place before we accept PX4 workflow into our repositories. We > need to do this right and I am willing to protect the repositories > until the workflow requirements are established. I expect that to > take about two weeks.) > * I would create a dev branch and expect all PRs to be against that > dev branch. > * As soon as the PPMC is confident that it has the processes in place > to handle the commit workload I will gladly relinquish this role. > * THIS IS NOT THE APACHE WAY. This is an interim dictatorship role to > expedite the avalanche of commits expected after the holidays. > > If any of this concerns people, please "Just Say No." I am not married > to the idea and I am not forcefully advocating it. This is what people > wanted me to do a few days ago and if I can protect our right to define > the workflow, then I will do it. For me it is a sacrifice that I would > take with no pleasure in. > > Pros: This will provide project continuity until the PPMC is fully > functional. Having workflow requirements will be a huge step in that > direction. People stressed about the commit process can relax with > confidence. This will protect the code base from premature work flow > changes until we have an understanding of what we want. No harm is done > by deferring workflow changes until we as a team are prepared to deal > with them. > > Cons: This is not the Apache way. People who are trying to bulldoze > the PX4 work flow into the repositories will hate the idea. Mentors > will hate the idea. An approach more consistent with the Apache way > would just be to let the chaos prevail. That is fine with me too as > long as we do not let PX4 advocates take away our group right to define > our own workflow. We can still just put all workflow changes on hold > until we have the requirements in hand. > > I am not pushing anything. Think about it and let me know what you > would like to do.
I agree with this because it is premature to change the way we work before there is a documented workflow that helps us understand what to do. Over the next two weeks, we should focus on designing the top-down workflow. It doesn't have to be final and it doesn't have to be perfect. We can improve it over time. But right now it's not ready, so I appreciate Greg's offer to do that, while the workflow is prepared. Thanks to Greg and everyone, Nathan
