Guidelines for contributing

[Sciss]

Should a CONTRIBUTING.md guide be added? What is the policy now that the project is "community maintained". Is there still a CLA that needs to be signed, etc.?

And what would be the forum to discuss; should there be dev gitter room or so?

[benhutchison]

Some answers:

• From a look at the CLA I think its intended to still apply, but scala community modules are a grey area not explicitly documented
• I'd prefer not to add a gitter room, can we just use github issues for comms..?
• I still see scala swing maintenance as a legacy support activity myself, so contributing guide is not my priority, but I welcome anything you might offer

[Sciss]

Ok. I agree with not having a Gitter, nobody intends to do any 'support' of any sorts. I mainly wondered if there are legal hurdles to submitting pull requests, but if nobody objects, we can just handle it informally.

[ashawley]

Slightly off-topic, but I wrote a a contributor guide on the scala-xml wiki. Feel free to steal any or all of it..

https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/wiki/Contributor-guide

[SethTisue]

about the CLA, previously: #51 (comment) so I think the status quo is that contributors are supposed to sign the CLA but we don't have automation for it in the module repos

[benhutchison]

Thanks @ashawley I'll try to copy-n-modify your guide as time permits

[Sciss]

Just a heads up – I have been watching GitHub very critically since they were bought by Microsoft, and all the changes introduced since then. Their newest shtick is threatening me into loosing access if I do not install a smart phone application for 2FA. I have no intention to install any phone applications nor to give them my phone number. So I am currently undoing the entanglement of my GH account with other organisations, and will slowly be migrating the repositories I'm involved in to codeberg.org . I don't really know what that means for "maintaining scala-swing", a project I'm still using and I'm still interested in. So for now, FYI.

[SethTisue]

Although they're now requiring 2FA, and although I personally use a phone app (Google Authenticator) for that, I'd be surprised if there were really only smartphone options? Can't you use the desktop version of e.g. 1Password or something?

[SethTisue]

these look relevant: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/49715, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/23490

[Sciss]

I managed with KeePassXC now. Nevertheless will minimise my GH presence.

[Philippus]

PR to add a CLA check.