The fact that commercial companies are supporting MapBuilder has to be encouraged. Your proposal makes a lot of sense and I am in strong favor of it. Make sure that the code ownership is resolved upfront. This is awesome! Great job. Hope you are feeling better!
+1 Pat. > From: Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:38:49 +1000 > To: "'[email protected]'" > <[email protected]>, Eric Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin > Vivian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Mapbuilder-devel] Proposal: 3 new developers from Lisasoft - PSC, > please vote > > mapbuilder-developers, > Lisasoft has won some work to extend Mapbuilder to support a Canadian > Geographic Data Infrastructure Pilot project, and to add KML support as > part of the OGC's OWS5 testbed. > > I have 3 developers from Lisasoft working on this under my technical > guidance: > Eric Lam, > Martin Vivian, > Jim Groffen. > > What I would like to do is give these developers access to the > Mapbuilder sandbox directory to do their development, eventually merging > back to the trunk when the code is reviewed and stable. > > If we were to give these developers access to the mapbuilder repository > immediately, it would break with usual convention of getting a developer > to submit patches first, then being invited to contribute. > However, I think that we starting to see new work processes develop as > people are getting commercial contracts to extend Mapbuilder. (I think > of Jean-Sebastian under Olivier's guidance as another example). > Having a developer commit directly to the repository rather than > applying patches is a more efficient way of getting code submitted. > > So I'd like to propose that a new developer can be fast tracked to > "committer" status IF an existing respected developer (or PSC member?) > volunteers to vouch for the new develop's code. > Ie, the Existing developer needs to agree to review the new developers > code before it is committed back into the Mapbuilder trunk or main > development branches. > > +1 > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > mapbuilder-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ mapbuilder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-devel
