All,
I had a chat at EclipseCon today with a user/consumer of Eclipse. They are concerned about some outdated libraries that Eclipse ships. They are interested in contributing updated to the library. In the past they reported difficulties with such contributions. I recall we always expect contributions coming from another project not from the outside.
I'd like to propose that we open Orbit for these kind of contributions. It should be possible for anyone to just submit a recipe for an updated version of a library. This accelerates the process IMO. We should stop asking "which project is this request coming from" and just be happy that someone is helping us reducing Orbit's technical debt.
To clarify, I'm not suggesting to accept contributions for *any* library - *only* updates to existing libraries.
Thoughts?
FWIW, expect CQs to be no longer an issue in this discussion. We (the Orbit committers) will create one in the beginning, when accepting such a contribution. They are going away eventually (yeah!).
