[vtk-developers] Driving away your existing developers

[Dean Inglis]

I've been following this thread for a while and would like to add that
I too found the gerritt workflow discouraging enough that I (and fellow
work colleagues) have decided
to maintain a privately forked VTK repo rather than contributing back to
the community.  I would echo
most of the sentiments already expressed by D. DeMarle, D. Gobbi, and J.B.
Although I do miss
the old CVS workflow days, and I have come to embrace github, I'll be
holding back on contributing
to VTK until the commit process is simplified, more responsive, and
expedient.

best to all of you,
Dean


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> One thing we can hope to do better next time to not alienate the old
> timers (including myself).
>
> * The transition from CVS to today's gerrit workflow was necessarily long,
> but there were frequent adjustments along the way as we learned and built
> up the infrastructure. Every change in the process meant retraining all of
> the (self interested and busy) contributors.
>
> Whatever our end goal is with the new infrastructure - we need to work
> harder to minimize the number of changes to the commit process, to keep the
> contribution process as dead simple as it can be, and to describe the
> mechanics clearly and loudly.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/28/2014 11:07 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
>> > 1) a 'commits' email list, like other projects.  Where you get an
>> > email for every merge into master.
>>
>> We've had one of these since CVS days:
>>
>>  http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-commit
>>
>> It still works.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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