This sounds alright to me; but you may need to have the original contributor grant permissions to add it to ASF, somewhere on the JIRA or mailing list or so, such that there's a record. You can then perhaps avoid what we had to do in Apache Oozie (then in Incubator) in the aftermath of missing attachments and using the reviewboard patches to commit directly (see end comments on tickets https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-629, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-759, etc.).
I think the http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/legal.html limits the contribs to come in from a few places only as per the development process; but I may be wrong as am no expert on interpreting legal text. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Adam Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > So using https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 it is possible to > work with pull requests outside of github. I'm also all for letting the > barrier to entry for newcomers. > > So i was thinking about making a patch from the request and then adding > that to the appropriate jira and then committing from there. Sound like a > reasonable approach? > > This came up from Mirko's question on how to contribute a patch. > > Cheers, > Adam -- Harsh J
