Matt, Thanks for the info, I am under the constraints of our legal dept., as soon as they wave there magic wand I will send an introduction and start as you outlined in you email.
Thanks!! Don On 2/6/07, Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Don, Glad to hear your interested in Apache Geronimo (or your company is as the case may be ;-) To provide a little context for contributing to Apache Geronimo. Folks that are working on the project are viewed in the context of their individual contributions as opposed to the company's they work for. At the end of the day it will be you who is involved and helping out. Generally there is a series of events that take place as people contribute to the project. In general we all start out as individual contributors that are interested in fixing bugs, testing, developing parts of the runtime, etc. I'm not sure what specific are you are interested in, perhaps you can elaborate. Regardless of the area, people start out by participating through e-mail, contributing patches (through JIRA) and building their karma in the community through continuous involvement. At some point, depending on the individual's involvement, people will recognize their consistent contribution, community participation, etc. and recommend that the community consider offering them commit. When their is a consensus on this in the community (this takes place on the PMC list which is private) you would be notified of the offer to become a committer. At that point Apache requires the CLA be signed and they are provided a userid. You can certainly send in the CLA now if you like so it will be on file and that would be great. However, sending in the CLA does not move someone closer to commit, rather it is their individual contribution. We look forward to your participation in the community. Is there a specific area you are interested in or other questions we can answer? On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Don Hill wrote: Hi, The company I work for wants me to start contributing to this project, I am looking at the following license agreement, is this the agreement that needs to be submitted? I know its for individual but was wondering if there is another one for a company employee? http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt Thanks. Don
