Hi,
I was chatting with Piotr Tabor and he's concerned that we don't
spend enough time looking at patches. I tried to clean many of them
out a couple months back but there are many good patches in there so
in an attempt to keep the people happy who are giving us their spare
time myself, Andy, Kenney, and John are going to spend Tuesday August
21st working with people to process patches. So it's going to work
like this. If you are pissed about one of your patches not getting
processed and you think it's a good patch then you can sign yourself
up here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Patch+Day
The name, description, JIRA are standard but there is also a rank
there. You tell us how good you think your patch is from 1-10, we'll
start with the 10s. It is not easy for any of us to stop work for a
whole day to do this so please try to provide tests with your patches
and give us lots of 10s. Between the 4 of us we cover North America
and Europe all day. We'll process as many patches as we can that day
and you have a week to prepare. I don't know how this will work, we
have never done but I think it will be fun to try.
Maven users can thank Piotr for having the balls to say he didn't
believe me when I said I would process his patch. "Sure you will,
when hell freezes over!". He didn't say, but he wanted to! He was
very polite but I take the point nonetheless. Thus we have Maven
Patch Day. This will work best if you are around that day when we try
to process your patch, being in our IRC @ irc.codehaus.org:6667
#maven would greatly help if we need you to adjust/fix your patch so
we can include it. We hope there are some feedback loops and we can
look at patches, tell you what might need to change, you fix them and
then we'll try to reapply. But if you want to get a patch applied
then use the week to sync your sources, get your patch up to date and
that will make it easier for us to get your work in.
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason van Zyl
Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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