Re: [gmf-dev] About the unexpected flattening of GMF Runtime repo

[Anthony Hunter <anthonyh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mickael,

Given the deadline of moving to git
I proceeded to move using a working pattern that I am familiar with given
the other projects I work on that already moved to git and CBI. This is
what I indicated in the Bugzilla. 

Cheers...
Anthony




From:      
 Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 gmf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 2012/12/06 02:57 AM
Subject:    
   [gmf-dev] About
the unexpected flattening of GMF Runtime repo
Sent by:    
   gmf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi Anthony, hi all,

I can see that you decided to flatten the GMF Runtime repository without
taking into account opinions from other contributors. Despite the -1 from
contributors (me) and the only active committer in GMF Runtime (Aurelien),
you forced this change. I think it was a bad move for the following reason:
1. it was not necessary to do this now.
2. Aurelien was working on moving to Tycho with interesting result. You
refactoring simply broke everything, so the CI job has not run for 2 weeks
now.
3. You'll probably see later that keeping a hierarchy in Tycho allows for
example to put test-specific parameters to the tests/pom.xml and then simplify
the parent pom. It has some technical advantages.

Also you made this change on CVS rather than doing it on Git, so it seems
impossible to revert it now.

Such a big change has to be part of a discussion, and has to be planned
with support from every one involved.

Instead I would have suggested the following:
1. Move to Git
2. Suggest your refactoring in a Bugzilla or a Gerrit contribution, with
build fixed
3. Merge it if nobody put a -1 on it.

I really see this as a bad way to lead the project. You just added technical
debt by breaking the job and Aurelien's work, and you imposed your opinion.
That's not a collaborative approach.

Cheers,
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss,
by Red Hat
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