Hi guys, Sorry for the late reaction. Just want to say that i'm sorry about the situation, I should have been more carefull, and this sort of things won't happen next time. All your reactions were quite usefull and made me learn a lot about ASF.
Best regards, Catalin Matthias Wessendorf-4 wrote: > > Ernst, > > glad you replyed to some comments. The MyFaces community trys the best > to help users with how OS development works. You are very welcome > here. The ASF is not all about code, those the guide is important. One > document to read is [1] if you have *enhancements* to that. they are > welcome. Provide a patch for the infra team ;) > > I now think we should move back to work. > Thanks for the contribution > > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html > > On 8/23/06, Ernst Fastl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi There! >> >> Since the recent commit brought quite some comments and advices in >> different >> threads I'll try to comment on what I understand as the outcome of >> that discussions >> in this mail. >> >> >For a substantial contribution like this, we'll need a CLA on file in >> >any case (even if the code came in through a jira-issue). >> >> >Is the original author of these classes willing to sign and fax in a >> CLA[2]? >> >If so, that gets us over the first hurdle. If not, the files should >> definitely be removed. >> >> I signed and faxed it today in the morning, so you all can be sure >> that this is apaches >> code now. Sorry that I haven't done that before, I did not know that >> this is also necessary >> if another commiter commits the code for you. I should have gathered >> more information of the >> process of apache contributions - to be honest I just didn't think of >> any legal issues. >> >> >I am not concerned about the icla or not >> >I am more concerned about the fact that patches sent offline >> >and not through Jira. >> >> I'm also sorry for that one. I just thought it would be good to >> provide some code which >> implements what I think came out of the initial discussions, before >> starting to talk >> on the mailing list of things that do not already exist. That was >> probably the wrong direction >> and I will try hard to communicate more efficiently with the >> community in the future. >> >> >The second problem is one that Wendy pointed out ... lack of license >> headers on the source files. >> >> Again I can only apologize, I just didn't think of that - sorry. >> >> >The sort of "offline" development. Sending offline a patch to a >> >committer for letting him commit the stuff is to me a -1. Looks like a >> >"bypass". >> >> I really didn't mean to bypass confirmation or evaluation of the >> community. I just thougth >> if the code is commited to the sandbox that this doesn't cause any >> harm and all people that >> want to verify the code can take a look there and give feedback. >> >> >Matthias, you're absolutely right - I'm just as concerned as you about >> >offline development, and asked Ernst several times to engage in an >> >discussion on the mailing list. >> >> All together I can only apologize for all those beginners misstakes. I >> am still new to Open Source >> Development and although it may have produced a different image I just >> had the best intentions. >> Thanks to all the comments that came up after this commit I belive I >> learned a lot of things >> about how the ASF works and will hopefully be able to avoid such >> beginners misstakes in the future. >> >> kind regards >> >> Ernst >> > > > -- > Matthias Wessendorf > > further stuff: > blog: http://jroller.com/page/mwessendorf > mail: mwessendorf-at-gmail-dot-com > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/About-the-Partial-Page-Rendering-Commit-...-tf2153656.html#a5962006 Sent from the My Faces - Dev forum at Nabble.com.
