MyFaces Core and the Portlet Bridge have an API policy in that the API
is dictated by a Portlet Bridge spec. They don't have any guidelines in
IMPL though. I think the majority of the projects rely on the
committeers to review and test any additions.
But like Matthias said, it's a good idea to bring it up in an email.
Stuff tends to be better when the community is involved.
Scott
Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Andy Schwartz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andrew Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to have:
>
> 1) Major and Major.Minor support
> 2) A syntax that is already supported by CSS @ styles in at least one
> browser or as close as we can come
> 3) Range, greater than and less than if possible
These all sound good to me. The underlying style handling layer (the
old XSS stuff) was never designed to support #1 or #3, but think it
would be worthwhile to see what we can do to address these.
>
> #2 I think is really important so that skinning feels familiar to CSS
> developers.
>
> If the solution meets those needs, I will be very happy, but others
> can decide on the exact syntax, I'm flexible
I've got a process question here, which I am a bit hesitant to ask
given our recent "discussions", but, well, what the heck... Shouldn't
we be discussing/reviewing such requirements/API additions before the
changes are committed to the trunks? Not that I am not grateful that
at least (I personally think) having a "I am about to commit this" is not a
bad thing (tm)
Cristi has invested the time on providing a solution (thanks for doing
this Cristi!). I am just wondering whether in general it would be
better to review/agree on new APIs before they get committed.
Does Trinidad (or MyFaces) have any policy/guidelines on how new
API/feature additions should be handled? Not picking on Cristi here -
Nope. Not that I know. Some other Apache projects have; some not.
I think that for adding new APIs, we might want that we at least get
an alert before :-)
I recently added some new skinning features myself and wasn't sure
whether there were some specific steps that I needed to follow.
haven't you ping the mailing list? If not, go ahead !
If it is just still in jira, well... it can be
there for a while. Bug trackers aren't that cool for discussions. Mailing
list are (I hate forums)
-M
Andy
