[Snowball-discuss] snowball maintenance, a review

Marc Abramowitz marca at surveymonkey.com
Fri Feb 22 22:35:04 GMT 2013


+1. And with GitHub, you could run tests automatically with Travis CI.

That said, Grant is also right that if the maintainers don't have the time, it might still not help; it does remove some friction though, once folks get accustomed to it.

From: Robert Hafner <tedivm at tedivm.com<mailto:tedivm at tedivm.com>>
Date: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:05 PM
To: Grant Ingersoll <gsingers at apache.org<mailto:gsingers at apache.org>>
Cc: "snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org<mailto:snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org>" <Snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org<mailto:Snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org>>
Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] snowball maintenance, a review

True, but Github lowers the need for resources. Being able to see all of the changes immediately in a single PR, and then if they're good just being able to hit the magic green "merge" button to get the changes into the main branch. Combined with a test suite you can immediately see whether something is or isn't good to merge.

Robert



On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:

I'm a big fan of Github, but contributions/pulls are one thing, but if you don't have enough resources to commit them on the back end to the official branch, it doesn't much matter where the source lives.

-Grant

On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Robert Hafner wrote:


I really wish Github was an option here, as it really would make contributions so so much easier. As I've mentioned before, I'd be happy to help with that in any way.

Robert



On Feb 22, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:


On Feb 22, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Damian Janowski wrote:

Unfortunately I haven't had enough time to understand how to properly
fix my Spanish issues, but I want to fix them and I'll post a patch as
soon as I achieve anything.

By the way, I proposed a move to GitHub not because I think SVN is
'old and thus bad', but because GitHub as a platform makes it much
easier for many developers to contribute to projects. That said,
Richard clarified that he is able and willing to port patches
submitted through GitHub to the official SVN repository, so maybe this
is no longer an important issue.

Would the project ever consider moving to the Apache Software Foundation?  I think you would find a lot of willing volunteers there who would help with sharing the load of answering questions and maintaining the code base.

I'd be willing to shepherd the process of bringing it in through incubation.  I can very much see it as a standalone, top level project (i.e. snowball.apache.org<http://snowball.apache.org/>), as Snowball is such a fundamental part of so many language processing tools these days, I'd hate to see it languish.  Apache does, of course, come with a different process for development (meritocratic-based, i.e. those who do the work, make the decisions).

-Grant Ingersoll

(FYI, I'm a Lucene/Solr/Mahout committer and also involved somewhat w/ OpenNLP and Apache Drill)
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