[Codenarc-developer] My views on making it easier for people to contribute

[Marcin E. <mar...@pr...>]

Hi all,

In the past I've contributed several rules and fixes to Codenarc. 
Recently we've added Codenarc to our project and we found a major bug in 
UnnecessarySemicolonRule and wanted to fix it. After checking the 
project state I've found out that it's still quite tedious to contribute 
for two reasons - svn and maven.

If you want to contribute to Codenarc you need to send patches in email, 
like I did by sending mails to Hamlet in the past. This would be much 
easier if the project was on github enabling people to submit pull 
request... I don't know if there is a CI build set up for the project 
but by putting it on github and hooking it up with buildhive you get CI 
builds for free, also for pull requests. Can you please explain what are 
the reasons for such a valuable project to be still using svn?

The other thing is getting the project into your IDE. It would be so 
much easier if there was a gradle build available for the project - 
simply typing gradle idea would generate the project for you with all 
the dependencies in place and no additional settings/tweaks needed. If 
you're interested I could try to contribute by migrating current maven 
build to gradle. I'm already in talks with Rene Gröschke about his 
efforts in the past in that area.

Cheers,
Marcin Erdmann