Hi Stefan! That's great news and even underlines better what Christian already stated: committocracy doen't really work out - not socially and not even technically. The code in question seems to got moved a few times, so all commit history is long time gone.
I'll scan the Ant codebase for similarities and pick the stuff I need if that's ok. txs and LieGrue, strub --- On Thu, 8/11/11, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > From: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: [general] Apache + Meritocracy > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 1:36 AM > On 2011-08-11, Mark Struberg wrote: > > > Of course they had the most commits over at the > codehaus SVN. But they > > did not say that 70% of the code did originally come > from Apache > > Avalon (only found that out after reading Stefan > Bodewigs @author tags > > and digged deeper). > > Really? I never contributed to Avalon. > > The most likely case is this is code originally written for > Ant, then > copied to Avalon from where it was copied to Plexus and > most likely > Commons as well. commons-compress' seed as well as > that of commons-exec > have taken similar journeys. > > You might want to check against the Ant code base to apply > the bug fixes > that have piled up over the 10 years that came after Peter > Donald copied > the code to Avalon ;-) > > Stefan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
