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

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

Marcin,

I was expecting/hoping that we could treat these as two separate issues. I'm
not sure that I am up for trying to tackle both at the same time. At some
point, I need to do some analysis to figure out the impacts of a migration
from Sourceforge+SVN to GitHub+Git.

I am probably more eager to do the Gradle migration, assuming that it now
supports the features that we need. I am also interested in getting more
experience with Git, but I expect that will be more disruptive.

Is doing one without the other (let's say doing Gradle), still feasible, and
still something you'd want to help with?

Thanks.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Erdmann [mailto:mar...@pr...] 
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:30 AM
To: Chris Mair
Cc: cod...@li...
Subject: Re: [Codenarc-developer] My views on making it easier for people to
contribute

Chris,

I'm glad to hear that you like my ideas. Here are the two feature requests
on Sourceforge tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3546737&group_id=250145&ati
d=1126575
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3546740&group_id=250145&ati
d=1126575

When it comes to the site plugin I'm currently waiting for a response from
Rene Gröschke on the status of the plugin
(https://github.com/breskeby/GradleSite). After having a quick peek at it I
believe it is finished. It's not in central but I could put it there cause I
have rights to 'org.gradle.api.plugins' group in Sonatype OSS repo.

I can start working on the build migration as soon as we'll put the code
into github - I will create a fork of it and submit a pull request when it's
ready. I can also help in migrating the source to github, I've migrated some
repos in the past from svn to github using git-svn and could pull the source
into the new repo given that I will get commit access to CodeNarc's github
repository - I won't mind if you revoke it after the migration is done.

Cheers,
Marcin

On 07/21/2012 02:35 PM, Chris Mair wrote:
> 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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