On 03/13/2012 12:23 PM, Miki Tebeka wrote: > I other question, I *do* have commit rights but very green to the > development process. Is there a document somewhere that I can refer > to?
There are some instructions at: https://cwiki.apache.org/AVRO/How+To+Contribute#HowToContribute-CommittingGuidelinesforcommitters If we find that document is missing things then we should update it. The general flow is something like: 0. An issue is opened in Jira. Potential solutions are discussed. 1. Someone provides a patch in Jira and marks it as "Patch Available". 2. A committer reviews the patch. 3. If the reviewer feels it's not ready for commit, reasons are given and we return to step (0) or (1). 4. If the patch is acceptable, it is committed and the Jira issue is resolved. While reviews are nice to get before commits, we don't strictly require a review before every commit. Often committers will say, either of their own patch or that of someone else, "I'll commit this tomorrow unless someone objects", then, if no one speaks up, they commit it. For trivial, uncontroversial changes like fixing typos, folks often just commit them immediately. Does this help? Doug
