For small contributions an ICLA is not mandatory but since you want to work on a bigger feature it would certainly help. There's only one ICLA but signing one won't make you a committer without a vote.
While your patch may be slim it seems to introduce a SPI so it would require an API Review (http://wiki.netbeans.org/APIReviews ). API Reviews are a old pre-Apache process but I believe we will have something similar under Apache too. We cannot just allow hooks all over the place if they impact the overall architecture. --emi On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Ross Lamont <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Given that there are a lot of balls in the air with regard to apache > transition and Netbeans 9 release schedule, what is the correct process for > submitting a patch, and what chance of getting it into Netbeans 9? > > Specifically: > 1. Do I create a bug/feature in Jira or in Bugzilla? > 2. I have not yet signed a contributor agreement. Do I sign the old Oracle > one, or do I only deal with the Apache ICLA? Is there a different ICLA for > contributor vs committer? > 3. Is there any sort of code freeze (soft or otherwise) in place at the > moment for Netbeans 9.0, 8.3 or 8.2.1? The patch I’m proposing will be slim - > it is just a refactoring to replace some hardwired construction of Cookies > with a factory interface and Service Provider semantics (affecting > XMLDataObject). This will allow me (and others) to develop new XML > validation algorithms as a plugin in isolation from the main build. > > Cheers > Ross
