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Re: [iot-pmc] top-level GitHub project

Hi Kai,

I too am sorry for taking this long to respond. It's not lack of interest, but rather to get an idea first on how to proceed.

(1) While it's not impossible for cyclonedds to use JIPP, using Travis and AppVeyor is easier for developers that want to send us pull requests because they build their sources on the exact same platform using the exact same build recipes and dependencies.

(2) We're still looking into this, but we're probably going to fork and start the process for the CQ soon.

(3) Build recipes for dependencies. We use Conan.io to manage build dependencies for the platforms on which we build. This makes it extremely easy for developers and users to simply get pre-compiled dependencies by pulling them from Bintray (https://bintray.com/) if they're not available on their system. Apart from that we have a guarantee that the product is build on the "exact same" platform every time because even the build dependencies are version controlled. I've written a bunch of these recipes, so the source for the recipe is "owned" by the project already, but it must not (and cannot) be stored in the cyclonedds repository. Currently we provide them through a GitHub organization tied to the company I work for (ADLINK), but it would be better if they're hosted with the project. We're going to be adding more and more of these recipes in the future as the number of dependencies grows. Please see https://github.com/atolab/conan-criterion to get an idea of what such a recipe looks like. I think maintaining them under our own organization would be best.


I'll get a bugzilla ticket created, let's continue the discussion there if there's still doubts wrt the validity of the request.

Cheers,
Jeroen


On 2018-10-31 11:37, Kai Kreuzer wrote:

Hi Jeroen,

Sorry for my late reply on this.
As an outcome of the PMC discussion, I have added a section about Github orgs here: https://wiki.eclipse.org/IoT/PMC#Project

As you can see, there are no general requirements that would allow it, but decisions have to be taken on a case by case evaluation.

So please let us again dive into your two arguments, why you are requesting such an org:

(1) In general, the PMC is of the opinion that Eclipse projects should use the provided build infrastructure (i.e. JIPP). Note that it is possible to also use Windows nodes for JIPP. External services such as Travis should only be a last resort, if it isn't possible to use JIPP. It would therefore be nice if you could check whether you can do the builds on JIPP and if this isn't possible to give the concrete reasons for that.

(2) As Wayne already stated: Any source code that is added in Eclipse project repositories IS source code of the Eclipse project. So you cannot maintain a fork (as part of your project) and continue to claim that it is merely a dependency of your project. The code would require to go through a full CQ as a code contribution to Eclipse. In any case, this should not require a dedicated Github org, but could be done as a sub-project in its own repo under the eclipse org.

Best regards,
Kai

On 30. Oct 2018, at 15:18, Jeroen Koekkoek <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

Just curious what the outcome of the discussion regarding TLOrg's is. Perhaps I can read about it somewhere or a short summary with requirements etc can be given?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Jeroen

On 2018-10-23 12:54, Wayne Beaton wrote:

If you want to keep content under the project's control, it needs to become project code. The first step to do that is to convince the PMC that it makes sense to do so (i.e. convince them that forking is desirable and in the best interests of the project and the Eclipse community). Then you need to engage the IP Team to get their review and approval.
HTH,
Wayne
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 6:27 PM Jeroen Koekkoek <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Kai,
Well we need it primarily for our own Conan recipes (build dependency
build recipes), currently six or so, and faster Travis and AppVeyor
builds. The recipes are all written by me btw, so no forking involved
there.
That being said, and this just out of curiosity and trying to understand
the reasons, mcpp is very likely to become a dependency for cyclonedds,
one that we must have to do code generation. mcpp is a fine project, but it's not very actively maintained. I could just write a Conan recipe and
keep some patches on the side, or I could fork it under the ADLINK-IST
GitHub organization, but it all boils down to the same thing really.
What's wrong with keeping a dependency directly under the projects
control? Keeping some level of control over it is actually why I thought
it would be a good idea.
Cheers,
Jeroen
On 2018-10-22 21:04, Kai Kreuzer wrote:
Hi Jeroen,
Please wait with creating an according Bugzilla ticket - while it is in
general technically possible, we would like to discuss this within the
PMC (which is together at ECE this week).
Also note that a TLOrg won't allow you to add a (2) forked sourceforge
project, so this actually won't help you much (EMO, correct me, if I am
wrong).
Cheers,
Kai
Am 22.10.2018 um 18:12 schrieb Jeroen Koekkoek <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Wayne,
Never mind. I saw a GitHub Organization request for a different
project, so I know what to do now. Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Jeroen
P.S.
Should anyone find this thread in search of the same information,
here's an example of a BugZilla ticket requesting a GitHub Organization
for a project: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539829
On 2018-10-22 17:45, Jeroen Koekkoek wrote:
Hi Wayne,
I take it you mean requesting another repository under the Eclipse
organization? I can't find any bugs regarding the promotion to to a
top-level GitHub project?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jeroen
On 2018-10-22 16:50, Wayne Beaton wrote: We added this sort of support
recently. Open a bug against Community/GitHub to ask the webmaster for
assistance.
Wayne
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 14:29 Kai Kreuzer, <kai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jeroen,
I very much doubt that this is possible. Afaik, ALL Eclipse projects
are under the eclipse github org and that's mandatory. For a definitive
answer on this, you might want to contact EMO.
Note that it is possible to request additional repositories for your
sub projects / components, though (see e.g.
https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome-packaging-sample, which belongs to
the SmartHome project, where the main repo is
https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome) - simply create a Bugzilla issue
for it and the webmasters will provision it for you.
Regards,
Kai
Am 22.10.2018 um 12:04 schrieb Jeroen Koekkoek <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi All,
I've got a question regarding the possibility of making cyclonedds a
top-level GitHub project. I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask
that question, if it isn't, please let me know the right list. If it
is, and I'm looking at the problem in the wrong way, please let me know
too. It's just that making it a top-level project seems like the best
solution.
There's two reasons for me to want to promote it to a top-level GitHub
project.
1. Faster Travis and AppVeyor builds. Right now builds for pull
requests take a long time and that'll only get worse when more projects
are going to join.
2. Dependencies. We're planning on implementing a better IDL compiler
to get quicker build and drop the Java dependency. Because we're
looking to implement support for more language bindings, now seems like
the right time to do that. Now, the IDL compiler will need a
preprocessor. We've more-or-less decided to go with mcpp
(http://mcpp.sourceforge.net/). The product itself is hosted on
SourceForge, which is a little slow and code is still hosted in svn.
The biggest problem however is that the original author isn't doing any
work on the project anymore and nobody can accept patches etc. For that
reason we want to "fork" it (svn import on GitHub) to fix some small
bugs etc. In my opinion hosting the project under a top-level
cyclonedds GitHub project is the best place. That way it's neatly
separated from the cyclonedds code while all members/privileges etc can
be managed by the project leads and committers.
Please let me know if it's possible or if there are better ways to go
about this.
Best regards,
Jeroen Koekkoek
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