> On Jul 16, 2015, at 12:25 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) > <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Can someone clarify in simple terms what the issue is here? >> > > There's a few issues Chris:
Let me try to describe this in terms how most members of the AsterixDB community probably see it. > 1. Contributions are being submitted, discussed, and accepted > externally. No record of the submission, discussion, or acceptance is > currently maintained at the ASF. AsterixDB uses a Gerrit instance hosted at UCI as a code review tool before submitting to the master branch. Discussions on modifications are indeed happening in Gerrit and are currently not forwarded to the ASF mailing lists, but forwarding those discussions should be possible. After discussion, review, and acceptance in the review tool, an AsterixDB committer manually commits the reviewed modification to the master branch in the ASF repository. If the original author of the modification of the code was an AsterixDB committer, the commit should be done by the original author. If the original author was another contributor, the commit should be done by the AsterixDB committer who reviewed and validated the modification. > 2. As in 1) contributions are being accepted externally, and then > synced, to the ASF repo, essentially making it the mirror, rather than > the required canonical copy. Contributions are accepted by an AsterixDB committer on a tool that is not hosted by the ASF. It is not clear why that makes the acceptance external to the project or the ASF. After acceptance, an AsterixDB committer commits the modifications to the ASF repo. The master branch of the ASF repository is considered to be the source of truth and the basis for releases. It is not obvious, why the fact that the modifications were reviewed in Gerrit before being committed to the ASF repo would make the ASF repo a “non-canonical” copy. Till --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
