On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
My website has said since mid-December that apr_dbd will be released under opensource license terms in January.
It's now Jan.30th, and this is getting embarrassing. I therefore intend to
fix this tomorrow, regardless. In the absence of APR karma, my proposal
to contribute the code to ASF will have to lapse, and I will simply release
it at under the GPL at apache.webthing.com.
If anyone with APR karma would like to take responsibility for committing
it, please contact me within 24 hours to discuss logistics.
The below isn't a comment on apr_dbd or Nick at all. Let's get that 100% straight. Rather, the above was a good opportunity to do a reminder of set policy. If anyone reads anything more in the below, then they should not do that :). I am looking forward to apr_dbd being folded in and Nick not having APR commit privs is/was simply an oversight.
In general, code donations do not have "strings attached." Someone
cannot donate code with the expectation that it will result
in automatic commit privs. There have been previous code donations
which we have *not* accepted due to our "concerns" about the
main developer. Furthermore, implied or explicit "threats"
("give me commit or I'll take my code someplace else") don't
work either. It goes against the whole concept of
community > code.Also, for code donations of any "more-than-reasonable" size, they should really go into the incubator first, even if it's just for the IP protection issues. That's one reason why it exists.
For people out there looking to add code to APR, we welcome ALL to our happy little group! I just wanted to make sure that all potential contributors knew the policies in place to avoid any embarrassing situations. ;)
