Sounds like a good plan to me as well. welcome aboard! -- dims
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally agree with the below way to go forward. > Thomas, as indicated, you need to fill a software grant and sent it, > then attach the code to a JIRA issue so that we can vote on accepting > this code and invite the authors who want to continue working on this > code as committers. > I'm looking forward to have you on board! > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 13:53, Jeremy Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/12/9 Thomas Diesler <[email protected]>: >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> >>> RedHat would like to participate in the recently introduced Aries project. >> >> This is great! >> >>> >>> We have implementations of >>> >>> * RFC 66 - Web Container >>> * RFC 98 - Transactions (based on JBossTM) >>> * RFC 124 - Blueprint Services >>> * RFC 139 - JMX Integration >>> * RFC 142 - JNDI Integration >>> >>> in various stages of completeness. There are plans of >>> >>> * RFC 143 - JPA Integration >>> * RFP-124 - Asynchronous Communication >>> * WebServices/REST >>> >>> In case you're interested in RedHat joining the Aries effort, please let me >>> know what would be next step and how particularly we could help? >> >> I, for one, am very interested in RedHat joining Aries. Aries has code >> for some of the above and will be interesting to pull your >> contribution together with what we have. Aries has a small amount of >> code relating to the OSGi Web Container specification which hasn't yet >> been pulled into the trunk from the contrib directory. If it isn't >> possible to contribute all the code together, the Web Container code >> would be a nice place to start. >> >> I may be reading between the lines, but I suspect what you propose to >> contribute has been authored by multiple people at RedHat. A >> contribution which is pre-existing i.e. not authored in the ASF, would >> need a software grant form [1] sent to the Apache secretary. After >> that, you can post the source to a JIRA issue [2] for the aries-dev >> community to review (and potentially commit to SVN). >> >> I would hope as contributor you would also wish to become a committer >> :-) and indeed if more than one person authored the contribution maybe >> several committers. I think once the code is available for all to see >> then we should discuss on this list whether to accept the author(s) as >> committers based on the contribution or to follow the route of each >> author being voted in as a committer following sustained subsequent >> contribution. Since we are still at the early stages of incubation I'm >> ok with the former. >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES >> >> Thanks !! >> Jeremy >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------ > Open Source SOA > http://fusesource.com > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com
