Any committer is allowed to create a development branch, preferably with some advance warning. The thing is: the ASF doesn't give away commit rights just upon request. Committership has to be earned by regular contributions. See: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
What we can do for you is to create a branch for your patches and then process (review, apply) them. That way you can improve the branch incrementally and we can get to know you. When you bombard us with good contributions, you can be pretty sure to be fast-tracked to committership. At least, you already have one task behind you: Your ICLA is on file with the ASF. That's good. On 07.07.2010 07:08:29 Glenn Adams wrote: > What is the policy for branch creation? In particular, would it be possible > to create a branch to which I could commit changes to add the following > support: > > - complex scripts (e.g., arabic, indic) > - advanced typographic font table support (e.g., gpos/gsub/jstf, ...) > - writing-mode, unicode-bidi, direction traits > - inline-progression-direction, block-progress-direction, shift-direction > traits > - unicode bidi algorithm > > Due to the extent of the changes to support the above, this may be a complex > patch to manage without a branch, as can be seen by my current set of > added/modified files listed below. > > Regards, > Glenn Adams > > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/DiscontinuousAssociationException.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/apps/TTFReader.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphTable.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/MultiByteFont.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/Positionable.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphUtils.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphSubtable.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/Font.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphCoverageTable.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphPositioningSubtable.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/truetype/TTFFile.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/LazyFont.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphPositioning.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/ArabicScriptProcessor.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphSequence.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/type1/AFMFile.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/GlyphSubstitutionTable.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/FontReader.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/Substitutable.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/FOText.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/Constants.java > M > src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/extensions/svg/SVGDOMContentHandlerFactory.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/PropertyList.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/FObj.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/flow/table/Table.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/pagination/SimplePageMaster.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/pagination/PageSequence.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/pagination/Region.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/properties/DimensionPropertyMaker.java > M > src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/properties/CorrespondingPropertyMaker.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/properties/IndentPropertyMaker.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/FOPropertyMapping.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/traits/Direction.java > A src/java/org/apache/fop/traits/WritingMode.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/BodyRegion.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/MainReference.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/AreaTreeParser.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/AreaTreeModel.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/PageViewport.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/Page.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/inline/WordArea.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/inline/TextArea.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/inline/Viewport.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/Span.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/RegionReference.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/PageSequence.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/Area.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/Trait.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/RegionViewport.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/area/Block.java > M src/java/org/apache/fop/util/CharUtilities.java Jeremias Maerki
