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

[Chris M. <chr...@ea...>]

Marcin,

Thank you for the feedback (and the CodeNarc contributions). 

I am open to both ideas. Can you please open a feature request for each
suggestion (Git/Github and Gradle):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=250145&atid=1126575. 

Both have been informally suggested before, so it's probably worth getting
them to a place where we can consolidate the discussion of the merits and
trade-offs, and bring Hamlet into the discussion as well. One of the
sticking points with Gradle previously was the lack of a site plugin, since
we currently use Maven to generate the CodeNarc web site from APT files, and
also generate the APT for the Rules Index page. I have not checked on the
status of that lately.

Thanks.
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Erdmann [mailto:mar...@pr...] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:34 PM
To: cod...@li...
Subject: [Codenarc-developer] My views on making it easier for people to
contribute

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

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