At 06:50 8/4/01 -0700, Karthik Rangaraju wrote:
>Hi all,
hi!
> I'm new to the project and am excited to contribute. I've got a
>couple of questions (this is my first open-source participation):
>Questions:
> How do you co-ordinate checking in new stuff? Do people develop locally
and
> email it to pre-approved/authorized folks?
until they become committers - you may want to refer to the following web
pages for basic information.
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html
> How does Apache decide whether or not to endorse new project ideas?
>If I have an idea, how can I see if Apache would like to develop it?
Well to be under the apache brand usually you need to
* have some sort of guarentee that project will be sucessful
* have a community behind it
However there is a recent project commons that is allowing newer projects
to grow inside apache. Join up to the mailing list and lurk there for a bit
to get a feel for it.
>Threading utilities:
> I've written classes for Mutex, Critical Sections, Djikstra Semaphores
> (also called counting semaphores) and Thread barriers. Avalon already
> has Mutexes and Locks, but you may find Djikstra semaphores and thread
> barriers useful
> Blocking queues: The most valuable threading utilities: I've got two
> versions: Bounded and boundless. A blocking queue blocks threads when
> trying to dequeue() from an empty queue. A bounded blocking queue
blocks
> threads trying to enqueue() to a full queue.
sounds useful.
> Dispatch servers:
> I've got a dispatch and multi-dispatch (pipelined dispatch) server
> implementation. The basic idea is that you define a component (I
call it > a ServerCommand) that the dispatch server manages. Each
component
> gets an in-queue and an out-queue and as jobs are put in its
> in-queue, the server hands it the job for processing and when done
> puts it in the outqueue.
> Multi-dispatch server extends this by creating a pipeline of commands
> by chaining in-queue and out-queues. You guys have Pipelines and
> kernels, not sure if they are different or not. I've not yet had a
> chance to dig deep
looks good and similar to something I didi a while back (a cron/job server
based on ants notion of tasks).
>I'm also planning to write articles on the above for Java world. I hope
there
>will be no copyright issues if you guys add the code to the Avalon project.
To be hosted in Apache CVS the code has to be copyright Apache.
Cheers,
Pete
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