Thanks for clarifying.
you email did not get to me before I sent mine.
:)
Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 12/13/2007 8:57 AM:
> BJ Freeman wrote:
>> only committers can be assigned, in the jira.
>> and when a committer commits, it is in the history.
>> for those of us that submit Jira, and not committers
>> it is up to the committer if they wish to reference's the source of the
>> commit.
>
> No, this is not true: for a committer it is *mandatory* to reference the
> author(s) of the patch or contribution.
> So the author is in the svn log forever. And it is also recorded in Jira
> forever (see the link I sent in my previous post in this thread).
>
> Jacopo
>
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>> Raj Saini sent the following on 12/13/2007 8:40 AM:
>>> I have noted a practice in OpenEJB related to giving credit for the
>>> patched to contributors. After applying the page they assign it to the
>>> contributor which keeps a record in the Jira which is easier to search.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Raj
>>>
>>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>> Hi Commiters,
>>>>
>>>> As suggested by Jacopo I (re)-read the commiters page. I w'd like to
>>>> note something here, especially for new commiters (but not only
>>>> ;o)
>>>>
>>>> What Do I Need To Keep In Mind When Applying Patches From A
>>>> Contributor?
>>>> You need to make sure that the commit message contains at least the
>>>> name of the contributor and ideally a reference to the Bugzilla
>>>> or JIRA issue where the patch was submitted. The reasons: this
>>>> preserves the legal trail and makes sure that contributors are
>>>> recognized. Obviously, the latter doesn't mean it's not a good idea to
>>>> list the names of all contributors somewhere on the website.
>>>> To make it easier to "grep" for commits with patches from
>>>> contributors, always use the same pattern in the commit message.
>>>> Traditionally, we use "Submitted by: <name>" or "Obtained from:
>>>> <name>".
>>>> Here's an example of what such a commit message could look like:
>>>> Bugzilla #43835:
>>>> Added some cool new feature.
>>>> Submitted by: John Doe <john.doe.at.null.org>
>>>>
>>>> taken from http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#applying-patches
>>>>
>>>> Feek free to use your own pattern, it's easy with svn tools around.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Jacques
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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