Its peer review, once the commiters themselves are happy to release the code (they vote to ascertain this) they release it. But as development is Open the code is actually available for download from CVS before it has been reviewed, approved, tested or anything. The golden rule is that code in CVS has to build, not that it should actually fulfil its stated purpose. Non commiter contributions have to be commited by a commiter, whoever does this will review the changes to make sure that they are useful, useable and well written. If a contributor makes a number of submissions which pass this review with no adverse comment then they have demonstrated that they have something to offer and their ability to fit-in with the projects processes, they are then likely to be considered as a new commiter.
d. > [Testing is mainly through JUnit unit tests, and actual usage. Most of the > developers use the nightly build rather than the latest release I would > guess. And then of course, there are many users who do their part and > download betas and alphas and submit bug reports. ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
