Re: [BuildStream] Contribution Guidelines, Status of nosoftware subgroup

[Laurence Urhegyi <laurence urhegyi codethink co uk>]

Hey Chandan,

Thanks for raising this.

Personally I agree with everything you've said, we should tidy up that 
area, and simplify contributing policies to be as straightforward as 
possible.

iirc, the MR and issue templates are stored in the 'nosoftware' repo, 
and I think I put the beaver there just so we had it somewhere 
accessible after we purchased the image.

But, my goal would be to remove the nosoftware subgroup entriely, after 
migrating things out. It was just a 'staging' area for ideas for the 
contributing guides, I think.

Cheers,
Laurence


On 2020-04-08 23:34, Chandan Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at our contributing guide to add some specifics on issue
> reporting, which is when I realized that our contributing docs
> (https://docs.buildstream.build/master/CONTRIBUTING.html#filing-issues)
> refer to a policy guide in a separate "nosoftware/alignment" repository
> (https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/nosoftware/alignment/-/blob/master/BuildStream_policies.md).
>
> I personally found this rather odd and I don't see why these 
> instructions need
> to live in a separate repository. In fact, I was thinking about making 
> this
> section more prominent, and move out of the Contributing section to the
> top-level index. But, that's a separate concern.
>
> The information in the nosoftware/alignment repository is certainly out 
> of date
> now given that it hasn't been updated in over an year. In my opinion, 
> we should
> some of this content to the main contributing guide, perhaps in a more 
> condensed
> form. The current guide seems very process oriented and focuses too 
> much on
> labels, assignees, statuses etc. I think we can simplify most of this 
> since we
> should aim to keep the barrier to entry for contribution low. How do 
> folks feel
> about this?
>
> ---
>
> This specific question aside, I am also curious about the nosoftware 
> subgroup
> (https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/nosoftware) in general. Since none of 
> the
> repositories there have been updated in quite a while, I wanted to ask 
> if
> anyone is maintaining it currently?
>
> If so, I think we need to document what each repository is supposed to 
> do. At
> present, they seem to have a weird combination of pdf reports, status 
> updates,
> shell scripts and weirdly enough our beloved BuildStream Beaver.
>
> If not, we should probably move some of the content to the main 
> repository or
> the website, and archive the rest.
>
> Let me know.
>
> Cheers!
> Chandan
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