Re: The Incubator and Infrastructure

[Erik Abele]

On 02.09.2005, at 14:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote:

Sal and Ian from HP expressed interest on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices- general&m=111901932102075&w=2

Quoting: "What are the steps for me to get set up w/ admin
rights for SVN? Once I get set up, I'll read up on how to do basic SVN

admin tasks, and then try to knock out some of the easier issues in JIRA."

I gave them the pointers:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices- general&m=111901966108282&w=2

email, specifically mention that you are on the WS-PMC, want to help
with mailing lists and SVN and that you can start with the pending
tasks of migrating stuff off of incubator."





That's the difference, you know ;-)

Quoting: "...There are various readme's in infrastructure SVN. ... In your intro Dims, come on - this is not the way the ASF works. What would you do if someone came to one of the WS dev-lists and asked: "Okay, I'm willing to help, give me committership and I'll see where I can help out with some commits..." - huh? Isn't it rather in the line of: "Hey, I've found a problem and worked out a solution, here it is (e.g. a patch), can we integrate that?" - same with infra: "hey, i found some SVN issues in Jira. I've set up a test repo in my homedir and imported their CVS module, looks good so far. Can we integrate that with the live repo and shut down the CVS module after the developers confirmed that everything is fine?"

They started a thread in infra@ mailing list:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

See the end of the thread, they asked for read-only access to infra
stuff to read the FAQ and README's:

Then they attempted to ask on #asfinfra for the same permissions to
read material and get to know stuff. That's where they were given the
brush off.

There is no real documentation in the infra repo regarding this. It's all public: http://apache.org/dev/cvs2svn.html - what do they need to resolve these JIRA issues? Can they look at them, think about them and then come up with specific requests?

For example: "Someone is asking for karma for XXX in JIRA; from reading the list and the website, I guess he will have to be added to the file minotaur:/x1/svn/asf-authorization but I don't have karma to do this by myself so here is a patch..." - do that and I promise you'll be in in the near future :)

Sigh! the SVN module http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/
should be at least viewable by committers if you want/expect them to
help.

Cheers,
Erik

Sigh! I don't understand why this repository is so important before opening up a terminal, ssh'ing to minotaur.apache.org, sitting down and looking around?!? That's a mystery to me but so be it and afaiac I'd be fine with opening it up since we scrubbed every bit of sensitive information in there some time ago...

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