Re: [jbosstools-dev] Eclipse process vs just OSS RE: Nodeclipse IDE (or components) in JBoss Tools?

On 05/23/2014 10:20 AM, Paul Verest wrote: Most projects have an "How to contribute" or equivalent page where this is usually clearly explained. Many projects use the same development tools/workflows (Bugzilla/Gerrit/Git/Jenkins) so you only have to learn it once. If you need assistance on how to contribute, projects have open communication channels where this can be asked. What would be interesting is to first know if you tried, and if yes, where were you blocked ? In many cases, just trying is enough to accomplish something. What do you want to do? What is the question you're seeking answers for? It may sound harsh, but I have the impression that many people just take the process as an excuse for not contributing, without having even evaluated the difficulty of adopting it or even tried it. I've sometimes heard "it's not on GitHub, I don't know how to contribute, so I don't contribute". In such case, it's also the responsibility of the developer to learn things and ask for questions in order to become a contributor. The Foundation isn't to blame. People who want to do things can do them, that's all that matters. Your feedback has a lot of value. It can be used to make the process and tools easier to understand and use, which is the main way to get more people contributing. The contribution process is a forever-evolving one, because of new constraints, new ideas, new tools, new technologies... You can use this bug to suggest some improvements to this process https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=435599 Cheers, -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>