To try to answer your questions as best as possible. First and foremost, become familiar with the goals and guiding principles we initially set out to maintain the math project here.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/proposal.html http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/developers.html http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/tasks.html
Mainguy, Mike wrote:
I'm in the same boat, a good answer would be appreciated (I've gotten a wide variety).
Another thing I'm wondering is should we add ourselves as an author when we submit a patch or is that just if you're a commiter?
Yes, you may provide a patch to project.xml with yourself as a contributor when you make a submission via the bug track. However, to avoid bloat of the contributors list, I'd recommend only doing it if you strongly feel you need this acknowledgment.
worse is better
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From: Matt Cliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Math] Commons Math Contributions
I recently download the math commons subproject and would like to help out.
This is my first open source contribution effort and am looking forward
to extending to other projects. I have a background in Mathematics (MS
and thesis work in Stochastic Analysis) and for the past several years worked as a project lead for a Java Company.
Basically, (1) What is the best way to contribute? (submit patches to this mailing list or through the bug tracking system?) Also, will the bug tracking a new "Math" component to the Commons project?
Please use bugzilla to provide your patches for the math project
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/
This is going to change slightly in the future as Math will become a full fledged component in commons as opposed to the current posting to the "sandbox". I think I will put together a xdoc that covers all this detail further.
If this is all too confusing initially, please just post it to the list until the changes in bugzilla occur and I publish this document.
(2) What should I be working on? (what do we need to do to get it to a
1.0 release?)
I think that our effort for 1.0 is fairly complete. Now we are just trying to figure out the release process, stabilize the move out off the sandbox etc.
I would be more comfortable doing some 'maintenance' type
work intially, downstream I can offer more substantitve math (I had done a bunch of work with DASSL and DASPK and their applications to Stochastic differential equations).
This is great, I think we need to explore more concerning DiffEq and Stochastic processes. I think first we need to stabilize 1.0 get it out and move forward with new additions and designs. Hang out on the list, postulate ideas, your niche will become clearer over time.
(3) Will there be a link on the http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/index.html page to the Math Compont
page?
There will be a link to the Math project on the commons front page, we are trying to catchup and get everything ironed out with this. (I just moved the cvs tree out of the sandbox last weekend.
(4) I added a quick type-o patch for the tasks.xml doc to see if it is the proper format. (this is a cvs diff output)
Matt, thanks for the patch I'll apply it.
The label said install Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux.
:-) snicker
cheers, Mark
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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