What is the proper procedure for submitting patches against jelly, and adding new features like new tag libraries, etc?
> another thing you're about to discover is that ASF > projects are > organized a little differently from the way you > might expect. we have > developers and committers rather than maintainers. > there is no one > single maintainer for jelly but there are number of > developers and > committers. > > james has a genius for creating uber cool, > innovative ideas for > software. he's also a really nice guy who's great to > work with. > unfortunately, he has more super cool ideas than > time to finish them. > it's common for james to come along with a great > idea and some cool > code and get everyone excited and the project > buzzing. once a project > seems to have gained a sustainable community, he'll > gradually move onto > new projects and interests. > > problems may occur if the community doesn't recruit > the developers the > project needs to transition from a cool experiment > to really useful > tool. jelly lost it's way a while ago when a lot of > the people who used > to work on it became more interested in other > projects (such as > geronimo) but paul's done a good job in getting > stuff back on track. > > senior committers drifting away is usually not the > problem for ASF > projects that it is for ones organized differently. > in fact, this > happens regularly without ill effects providing that > the community is > healthy and replaces the energy that has been lost. > > - robert > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
