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Re: [wtp-dev] Plans for Gerrit?

Hi,

As a list lurker, and someone was recently trying to submit a patch but
couldn't find the relevant project on Gerrit...this would indeed be
welcome! :)

Thanks,
Gerard.

On Mon 23 Jun 2014 17:22:48 IST, Chuck Bridgham wrote:
> Thanks Mickael,
>
> I agree Gerrit has demonstrated itself well in JSDT, and other subprojects 
> would benefit from easily allowing outside contributions.  I do believe
> there was some hesitation from project leads introducing another layer of 
> complexity for committing code, but as you mentioned existing committers 
> can choose to 
> push directly.
>
> I'll make sure this topic comes up in our post Luna retrospective 
> discussion - including more general ways to welcome outside contributions
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Chuck Bridgham
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> From:   Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:   06/23/2014 11:28 AM
> Subject:        [wtp-dev] Plans for Gerrit?
> Sent by:        wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> Hi all,
>
> There is an ongoing discussion on Twitter about contributions to WebTools, 
> and it seems indeed that webtools is not a very welcoming project for 
> contributors. Not that contributions are not welcome, but more that 
> contributors will probably find difficult to contribute and some are 
> disappointed to see their contributions forgotten (example 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247312 ).
> So what are the plans to move WebTools projects to Gerrit? All projects 
> that moved to Gerrit have seen a boost in their amount and diversity of 
> contributors. I guess we all obviously want that for WebTools.
>
> Moving to Gerrit is pretty simple: it's just a matter of asking webmaster 
> and using a new push URL. It's not intrusive as committers can be allowed 
> to still push directly to master without a review.
> The more difficult part is to update the documentation, but that's far 
> from being a showstopper.
>
> So what are the plan? What are we waiting for?
>
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