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From: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>
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Subject: Contributions / SonarCube (was odd headers)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:15:47 +1000
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Hi,

> Absolutely want to see more discussion about the 9 or 13 points from
> ApacheCon.  I don't agree that discussing trace statements, inlining
> constants, and empty constructors will bring in more contributors.
> Getting quality releases out encourages more contributors.

Well actually the issues above is one of the points on that ApacheCon =
list. It about code quality and Sonar Cube reports. SonarCube flags the =
above items as critical / major issues.

A lot of the things reported by SonarCube are easy to fix and it's a =
very easy way for people to contribute especially if they are not =
confident in making changes to the SDK or know the code base well. In =
some case you wouldn=E2=80=99t even need to know AS or Java well to make =
the suggested changes.

Now same of these changes are needed, some may not be, and some we =
should ignore but you usually uncover issues or bugs when looking at =
them - as I did the other day. You may not agree with how it categorised =
things and perhaps the reports need some filtering / tuning but if so =
lets discuss that here.

Here=E2=80=99s the SonarCube links for those interested - and yes it =
also scans the framework AS code.
https://builds.apache.org/analysis/overview?id=3D2461
https://builds.apache.org/analysis/overview?id=3D20942

There=E2=80=99s  currently a large number of issues for those above =
projects including a small number of what it thinks are =
blocking/critical bugs and security vulnerabilities.

It=E2=80=99s also very easy to set up and run locally for people working =
on their own FlexJS applications.

> Getting some production apps out there will bring in more =
contributors.

There are several people on this list working on FlexJS applications =
myself included. Our application is currently in production (soft =
launch) and I gave a talk about the development of it at ApacheCon.

Thanks,
Justin=

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