2006/1/23, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > in my understanding of "the apache way", one of the important > principles is that all decisions happen on the mailing list. To me, > for Geronimo, that means that if you are working on a feature more > complex than a simple bug fix, you describe it in general terms in an > email to the dev list or in a jira entry. While I try to follow this > I know I often fail and would appreciate reminders when I do.
Hi Dave, It's very good you had said this since *you* are the one who've been following the principle and your changes always proved it had been good to read the comment before reading the changes ;) They're very advanced in their nature and involve a lot of knowledge. So, without having read a JIRA entry *and* your explanation it could hardly be understandable. I once sent you an email with a question about bit-wise operation in the if statement when you first introduced it a loooong time ago. I'm pretty sure such approach could influence the state of our documentation. One could simply copy-and-paste the content of emails to wiki and polish it afterwards. > When I don't see this happening, for Geronimo code or for code in > projects that are supposed to be on the way into incubation as > Geronimo sub projects, I get worried and wonder how long the project > will survive. Correct. I didn't think about the incubated projects (!) I haven't yet spot any area where a change had been made without first being discussed. Well, probably there were a few, but they didn't catch my attention ;) It's worth discussing things like this to remind everybody that we're a very-well-spread group of contributors and noone will know everything about a project (s)he contributes to. The more documentation, the better - for us and for those who would like to jump in. Thanks Dave for the thread! > david jencks -- Jacek Laskowski http://www.laskowski.org.pl
