On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
>> Yep - I would suggest then we keep it simple and have
>>
>> /geronimmo/sandbox
>>
>
> Fine with me
>
>
>> /geronimo/sandbox/misc/SoC
>>
>
> I think we agreed this one is going to operate through patches.
Wasn't sure what we agreed on. If patches, great. If working as
"regular" committer, great.
>
>
>> /geronimo/sandbox/donations/trifork
>> /geronimo/sandbox/donations/ibm
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> I would prefer a mixed name or feature name rather than a company
> name -- so perhaps trifork-corba or corba, and web-console or
> ibm-web-console, or something like that.
Fine by me. I figured that TriFork *and* IBM might be contributing
more than one thing, so was a neat bucketing. But i don't care.
>
>
>> I'd be happy w/ separate ACLs to let people work as fast and
>> "normally" as possible, w/o having to wait for patches to be
>> accepted. There's no danger with SVN. That said, I'd go w/ patches
>> if that was the consensus.
>>
>
> Well, I don't want to offend anyone, but I can envision a scenario
> where we don't see eye to eye with a submitter on architecture or
> features
> or whatever.
Heresy! Has it EVER been the case where we don't all harmoniously
agree? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
:D
LOL
> If the submitter charges ahead with their own changes in
> their own style and that turns out to be unacceptable to us, then the
> whole module is wasted.
The rules of technical consensus apply as for all our code - any one
of us can veto for technical reasons. This isn't "Geroni-forge" :)
> If they submit patches instead, we are free to
> accept them or hold off and massage the code into something more
> appropriate to us. I am not saying this is the expected case,
> which is
> why I only have a minor preference for patches, but it would be
> nice to
> account for.
Right - all I'm saying is that anyone can veto a change and roll it
back out of SVN, so the end result is identical - community oversight
and control of the technical nature and changes to our codebase.
geir
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> Aaron
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