DAO-Function: countByExample

[Daniel Kasmeroglu]

Hi there, I'm new here on this list, so please be patient with me. I've needed a function 
'countByExample' in my DAOs which has been written nearly everytime using custom sqlmaps 
which was a bit annoying.
Therefore I've took the current Abator release (1.0.0-238) and modified the source, so 
each DAO now get's a 'countByExample' function.
This function is basically the result of copy&paste since it's very similar to 
'selectByExample'.
I would like to contribute these changes to Abator but I haven't found some corresponding 
information on the site (or is it possible to attach files to JIRA feature requests which 
I haven't found ?). Generally I'm used to send such contributions to one of the developers 
which would aprove them, so how can I achieve this task for Abator ?
If someone here's interested in this patch, it can be found under 
http://www.kasisoft.net/pub/abator-patch.zip . It only contains the modified files.

Thanks in advance.
Ciao
Kasimir