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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 1000 line limit for contributions

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=382798

I believe that is the bug and what I was told on every board meeting since I joined was that it's just waiting on automation.

Denis - I'll sit back and applaud your magic :)

/max
http://about.me/maxandersen


> On 20 Nov 2015, at 19:45, Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/20/2015 01:42 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> Denis, what's the holdup ? :)
> 
> There's no bug? With Legal's sign-off?
> 
> "Have fingers, will code."
> 
> D.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 Nov 2015, at 19:36, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The "allow committers to contribute to other eclipse projects" topic
>>> is well underway in the Eclipse Board. There is a problem that some
>>> committers have written agreements from their employer that only
>>> allows them to participate on a particular project. The Foundation
>>> needs to put some automation in place to handle this, but there is a
>>> path forward here and progress is being made.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:-----cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
>>> To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>> From: Lars Vogel
>>> Sent by: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: 11/20/2015 11:44AM
>>> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 1000 line limit for contributions
>>> 
>>> Great proposal from Max to skip CQ for Eclipse committers. It does not
>>> make sense that I can commit 100 000 lines to PDE but not 1001 to
>>> another project I'm not a committer for.
>>> 
>>> Max, can you bring your proposal to the board?
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Lars
>>> 
>>> Am 20.11.2015 9:00 vorm. schrieb "Max Rydahl Andersen"
>>> <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
>>> 
>>>    On 19 Nov 2015, at 11:17, Ed Merks wrote:
>>> 
>>>        Recall that this was increased from 250 to 1000 not so long
>>>        ago.  I wasn't able to push the IP committee beyond that. 
>>>        People working for an organization that has a corporate
>>>        representative on the board could ask that representative to
>>>        raise this issue at a board meeting.  I think that would carry
>>>        more weight than me personally asking for a further increase.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    In this case it looks like a broken notification - good it was
>>>    found and identified.
>>> 
>>>    I can personally vouch that the 1000 line limit have directly
>>>    taken part in why I have stopped contributing to i.e. mylyndoc
>>>    asciidoc support. Here I spent several weekends and eventually
>>>    months on getting basic contributions in that was *obviously* not
>>>    in any danger of having IP conflicts since the code was copied
>>>    from mylyn.doc itself and 100% written by me - still I had to play
>>>    the game of splitting up contributions and in the end just stop
>>>    doing it. (mylyn.doc could fix this by making me a committer or
>>>    eclipse foundation allow contributions from other eclipse
>>>    committers without CQ review - but that is just examples of more
>>>    process dancing)
>>> 
>>>    Thus this really is an issue and something I raised to IP and
>>>    Legal team several time in the pass - issue is that from their
>>>    perspective they don't get to see the times a committer is asked
>>>    to split a contribution up; they just see the +1000 lines ones and
>>>    think they are fast to get it though the system.
>>> 
>>>    But If I have to wait 2 weeks between contributions for things
>>>    that are not on my critical path I just cannot afford spending
>>>    time on it - especially if I have interest in building on top of
>>>    these contributions.
>>>    And I'm actually a believer in doing things right at eclipse - but
>>>    I can just imagine those coming from the outside just never show
>>>    up or just leave immediately.
>>> 
>>>    But to the point on raising this to the IP committee and the board.
>>> 
>>>    If you get caught in similar dead or live-locks in the IP system
>>>    or see another attempt on having to split up otherwise perfect
>>>    valid contributions, please consider forwarding me info personally
>>>    (manderse@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>).
>>> 
>>>    I would like to be able to show to IP committee and board how
>>>    often this is actually hurting us - or on the flip side, be
>>>    convinced that is not actually that big an issue.
>>> 
>>>    Thanks,
>>>    /max
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        On 19/11/2015 11:00 AM, Ed Willink wrote:
>>> 
>>>            Hi
>>> 
>>>            Presumably you put tests in a separate plugin, so
>>>            splitting off the tests as a separate contribution gets
>>>            you twice the limit with minimal effort.
>>> 
>>>            Perhaps a 10000 line limit might be appropriate for
>>>            non-deliverable code such as tests and build tools.
>>> 
>>>            Regards
>>> 
>>>             Ed Willink
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>            On 19/11/2015 09:49, Sievers, Jan wrote:
>>> 
>>>                Hi,
>>> 
>>>                in the course of
>>> 
>>>                https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477328
>>> 
>>> 
>>>                we had a contribution that slightly exceeded 1000
>>>                lines and thus needed a CQ.
>>>                It took about one month to review it.
>>> 
>>>                I am sure the legal team does its very best to keep up
>>>                with the load, so the following is in no way a
>>>                criticism of the
>>>                people who actually do the legal review.
>>> 
>>>                Rather take it as food for thought to whoever set up
>>>                this rule.
>>> 
>>>                IMHO the 1000 line rule is effectively setting the
>>>                wrong incentives for a thriving opensource project.
>>> 
>>>                Here is why I think so:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>                The most diligent contributors add a lot of tests to
>>>                their patch to prove it works.
>>>                This is a good thing and we actively encourage
>>>                contributors to thoroughly test.
>>>                Test code can easily outweigh productive code being
>>>                tested in terms of LOC.
>>>                However this means the most diligent contributors,
>>>                i.e. the ones you want to attract, are more likely to
>>>                hit the 1000 line limit.
>>>                Instead of thanking them for their hard work, we
>>>                effectively punish them with an extra month or more
>>>                wait time before their patch can be merged.
>>>                Apart from that, the 1000 line limit seems arbitrary
>>>                to me because technically you can split up any commit
>>>                into any number
>>>                of smaller commits below the 1000 line limit.
>>> 
>>>                Best Regards,
>>>                Jan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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