I've changed the text in the report to reflect some of this conversation. I believe a mentor needs to sign off before the 9th. Please let me know if there's anything further you think I should do.
Thanks, Karl On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I've updated your original document in the MCF wiki to be current. I > had forgotten it was there. > Karl > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >
