Guidelines for contributing
Sciss opened this issue · 10 comments
Should a CONTRIBUTING.md guide be added? What is the policy now that the project is "community maintained". Is there still a CLA that needs to be signed, etc.?
And what would be the forum to discuss; should there be dev gitter room or so?
Some answers:
- From a look at the CLA I think its intended to still apply, but scala community modules are a grey area not explicitly documented
- I'd prefer not to add a gitter room, can we just use github issues for comms..?
- I still see scala swing maintenance as a legacy support activity myself, so contributing guide is not my priority, but I welcome anything you might offer
Ok. I agree with not having a Gitter, nobody intends to do any 'support' of any sorts. I mainly wondered if there are legal hurdles to submitting pull requests, but if nobody objects, we can just handle it informally.
Slightly off-topic, but I wrote a a contributor guide on the scala-xml wiki. Feel free to steal any or all of it..
about the CLA, previously: #51 (comment) so I think the status quo is that contributors are supposed to sign the CLA but we don't have automation for it in the module repos
Thanks @ashawley I'll try to copy-n-modify your guide as time permits
Just a heads up – I have been watching GitHub very critically since they were bought by Microsoft, and all the changes introduced since then. Their newest shtick is threatening me into loosing access if I do not install a smart phone application for 2FA. I have no intention to install any phone applications nor to give them my phone number. So I am currently undoing the entanglement of my GH account with other organisations, and will slowly be migrating the repositories I'm involved in to codeberg.org . I don't really know what that means for "maintaining scala-swing", a project I'm still using and I'm still interested in. So for now, FYI.
Although they're now requiring 2FA, and although I personally use a phone app (Google Authenticator) for that, I'd be surprised if there were really only smartphone options? Can't you use the desktop version of e.g. 1Password or something?
I managed with KeePassXC now. Nevertheless will minimise my GH presence.