+1. This is basically how I see it as well. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Till Westmann <ti...@apache.org> wrote: > >> 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 >
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