Future of JavaFX
Markus KARG
markus at headcrashing.eu
Thu Dec 3 18:50:27 UTC 2015
Agreed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Race [mailto:philip.race at oracle.com]
Sent: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 19:39
To: Markus KARG; openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
As Kevin already said, you won't get anywhere by discussing that on
*this* list.
It is out of the control of JavaFX. It is an OpenJDK-wide policy regarding the bug tracker.
You would need to take it to openjdk-discuss since it is common across all OpenJDK projects.
And there is some work in progress the submission easier and to provide means to add updates. I think that may have been shared in a previous thread on this or some other list.
-phil.
On 12/3/2015 10:31 AM, Markus KARG wrote:
> +1
>
> It simply must be possibly for *everyone* to open tickets, comment on tickets, vote for tickets, without signing a CLA. We simply could have bylaws that say that you agree to the CLA simply by using the tracker. In Germany for example, this is possible by posting the licence agreement on the same web site and the words "By using this service you agree to this terms.".
>
> The must be people in charge reviewing small contributions and directly tell in the comments field what exactly is needed to be accepted as a contribution.
>
> Everything else will hold people back from contributing small contributions or even report bugs.
>
> -Markus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On
> Behalf Of Mark Fortner
> Sent: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 00:12
> To: Florian Brunner
> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
>
> I think the first hurdle is to get people to sign the CLA. Having to
> print a copy, sign it, and find a fax machine or scanner to resend it
> seems kind of archaic in this day and age. That said, e-signing a PDF
> shouldn't be too difficult, but it would be better if it were simply a
> form that you attached your public key to. This would serve 2
> purposes: (1) you have a proxy for a signature, (2) the key could be used to access the repo.
>
> That said, even that might be too much for people who just have a
> quick bug fix that they'd like to see reviewed and merged.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Florian Brunner <fbrunnerlist at gmx.ch> wrote:
>
>> Some time ago there actaully was a OpenJFX mirror repository on BitBucket.
>>
>> I'm not totally sure anymore why this was stopped. I think it needs
>> someone who keeps the repositories in sync and there were some
>> concerns that it's harder to control who wrote a patch. But maybe the
>> idea with CLA signers only members would solve this issue?
>>
>> So I see 3 pain points being raised.
>>
>> 1. Signing the CLA.
>> - Personally, I don't see any way around this. If there is
>> no CLA then you end up with a project _nobody_ is in control of.
>> - Basically it envolves the following steps:
>> -- Download it from the website
>> -- print it
>> -- sign it
>> -- send it off
>> -- you only have to do this once
>> -- you don't have to wait for Oracle to receive it to start
>> working on the issue you like to solve
>>
>> Can this be presented in a way it doesn't scare people away as
>> according to some statements it seems to do now?
>>
>> 2. State-of-the-art code collaboration platform.
>> -- This would have to be something like GitHub or BitBucket
>> -- Only CLA signers can be members of the project
>> -- Someone has to be in charge to synchronize the
>> repositories (probably one way only)
>> -- personally I like to work with feature branches in Git
>> but I think you can get something similar with Mercurial bookmarks.
>> So
>> --- pick an issue you would like to work on
>> --- consider to announce it on this mailing list
>> --- create a feature branch
>> --- start pushing your changes to the feature branch
>> --- other developers of the projects (all CLA signers) might
>> chime in as they like
>> --- once you think you're finished create a patch from the
>> feature branch and add it to the issue or (if you don't have enough
>> rights) send it to the mailing list
>> --- take the feedback from the review, do the fixes an create
>> another patch etc.
>>
>> So the main benefit would be that several developers could work on
>> the same issue until it gets to a high enough qualiy state to be
>> merged into the main repository and not requiring one developer to do
>> it all on his/ her own.
>>
>>
>> 3. Filing and commenting on issues
>> - if you don't have enough rights, file it on bugs.java.com
>> - ask on this mailing list (or ask someone you know on this
>> mailing list to do it for you) about the corresponding issue on
>> bugs.openjdk.java.net
>> - someone from Oracle should give anyone who filed an issue that
>> made it to bugs.openjdk.java.net the enough rights so he/ she can
>> join on the discussion in the issue
>>
>> Any better way?
>>
>>
>> -Florian
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015, 17.16:46 schrieb Tomas Mikula:
>>> The proposed strategy also applies to bitbucket, which does have
>> mercurial
>>> support ;)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Markus KARG <markus at headcrashing.eu>
>> wrote:
>>>> Too bad that Github cannot fork mercurial repos. It would be
>> interesting
>>>> to see the real number of pull requests such a fork would gain.
>>>> Maybe Dalibor is right and we would end up with zero? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> -Markus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Tomas Mikula [mailto:tomas.mikula at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 23:05
>>>> To: Markus KARG
>>>> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>>> Subject: Re: Future of JavaFX
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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