Future of JavaFX

[Tomas Mikula]

The review process for external contributions does not even have to be
different from the internal review process. There can be a virtual
organization on GitHub called "Oracle CLA signatories". After a pull
request has been reviewed, all that the OpenJFX committer has to do before
merging is to check whether the contributor is a member of this
organization.

Tomas

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Markus KARG <markus at headcrashing.eu> wrote:

> We should ask ourselfs whether we want more contributions or not. We will
> not get them until we change something. Most contributors in the Open
> Source just want to drop a bug report or a feature or two, and multiplied
> by the number of those guys, this is a lot of stuff. Only few contributors
> are willing to stay for long time, and only for those it makes sense to
> have the complex rules. For example, I do not see why we cannot have a
> dedicated full time "Community Officer" who simply collects the
> contributions, reviews it, applies the needed checks and rules and all that
> instead of asking everybody to follow a complex process? That would ensure
> the quality, but not for the cost of losing contributors.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hervé Girod [mailto:herve.girod at gmail.com]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 20:19
> To: Markus KARG
> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
>
> Things are not different for Apache projects. Google does not accept any
> external contributions. The Linux kernel development is very tightly
> controlled. We should stop considering that widespread open source policies
> are only a problem with JavaFX. These policies are in place for a reason.
>
> Hervé
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 1, 2015, at 20:13, Markus KARG <markus at headcrashing.eu> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder why I was able to jointly assign my copyright with a lot of
> other
> > open source projects without having to sign papers, sent them in by fax,
> > wait for a written agreement, and pray to get a JIRA account... ;-)
> >
> > See, I talked to a real lot of former JavaFX contributors in the past
> weeks
> > (visited some European JUGs in 2015), and *virtually everybody* told me
> that
> > he is really unsatisfied with the fact that he cannot directly file to
> JIRA
> > anymore or AT LEAST vote and comment on existing tickets. Is the JavaFX
> team
> > clear about how many contributors you lost by that policy? I really
> wonder
> > whether you see the reality there outside of Oracle. People stopped
> > reporting bugs! This is a real problem for JavaFX. You should act. Now.
> >
> > -Markus
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On
> Behalf Of
> > dalibor topic
> > Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 19:06
> > To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> > Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
> >
> >> On 01.12.2015 18:35, Markus KARG wrote:
> >> With respect to TeamFX, the better question is: Are there plans to
> further
> >> open the project so third party has an easier channel to contribute
> > without
> >> the hazzle of contributor agreements
> >
> > "Like many other open-source communities, the OpenJDK Community requires
> > Contributors to jointly assign their copyright on contributed code." as
> > http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ wisely says.
> >
> > There is no good reason to change that.
> >
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
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