| Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Improving license check for dependencies |
Hi
all,
In the spirit of reducing friction, I'd like to share a little about my
week in trying to get some CQs approved. I work on a project called
GeoMesa which has dependencies on two different ecosystems: Java-based
geospatial and Apache Software Foundation 'big data' projects (like
HBase, Cassandra, etc). (Consequently, GeoMesa has entered over 400
CQs
over its lifetime.)
For an upcoming release, we are upgrading versions of our Apache
projects. I tossed in 4 CQs* for ASF code. All of the versions
are
upgrades of software projects which have already been approved.
In order to make sure that we don't miss something, we wait for Eclipse
approval in IPZilla before merging a PR with a dependency change.
(We've got a little bit of scripting with Maven's Dependency plugin
which helps us monitor this. Let me know if you are interested; I'd
be
happy to share more info.)
I'm hitting a few pieces of slow down / friction / frustration.
First, I am required to get PMC approval for each CQ. It took me
two
days of pinging my fellow PMCers to get one of them to vote +1 and click
4 boxes in IPZilla.
Second, now that the CQs are back to the 'new' status, and I am
completely unsure what the next steps are. Does anyone know how long
the automated checks take to run?
Third, each of projects is an Apache Software Foundation project for
which previous versions have been used by Eclipse projects. I know
there's always a chance that something goes screwy with licensing in any
project at any time. That said, if any of these CQs fail an automated
check, then I imagine an Eclipse employee is gonna have a task to open
the CQ, they'd see that it is an ASF project and click 'approve'.
Anyhow, apologies for venting. Thanks for reading, thanks in advance
for any suggestions. For my position, I think there are some changes
we
could make:
1. Remove the need to get PMC approval.
2. Provide some way to get faster approval for version upgrades.
Either of those approaches would make my life better. Together, 95%
of
my frustration with IP concerns would be gone.
As the AC, what are we in a position to recommend / request?
Cheers,
Jim
* Interested in watching from home, the CQs are here:
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21802
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21803
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21804
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21805
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