+1 for collapsing, provided we can merge the existing subscription lists. If we can't do that, than I'm not in favor.
Karl On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Karl Wright wrote: > >> >>> Karl, what do you think we can do to make it easier for people to get into >>> the code? Are other people putting up patches? >>> >> >> What's been happening is that we do indeed get code from contributors, >> but the contributors in question seem like they are new to >> open-source. I usually have to provide quite a bit of process advice, >> and explain the steps, and even sometimes do a chunk of the code >> myself. So we definitely are not at the point yet where we have >> knowledgeable developers contributing regularly. > > We should document on the wiki the steps for contributing patches, like we do > for Lucene, et. al. This generally helps and gives us something to point > people to in the future. Also, if we get a few patches from one or two > people on a regular basis, we should look to add them as committers > (discussion on specific people should be handled on the project PMC list). > > Also, what do people think about collapsing c-dev@ and c-user@ into just > connectors-dev@? > > -Grant > >
