I'm also trying to co-ordinate JavaMail implementation amongst others as well, but feel that it makes things a bit more difficult for me in these initial phases to submit lengthy patches and testing code, whereas I'd prefer to submit lots of smaller patches with individual tests. But it's a bit difficult for me to write some code, then do a 'cvs diff', then write some more code, and do a second 'cvs diff' because what will happen is the second diff won't just contain what I've just done, but also what I did before as well.
I concur with some of the reasoning behind not voting me as a committer, because this seems to imply other rights/issues under the Apache interpretation of the term. But it's unclear as to what goals I have to pass. 6 months seems to be a suggested time-line, but I suspect this is a measure for how many patches/code quality that has been developed so far, along with discussions etc. However, I'd like to point out that I have been fairly involved with the project to date; I've sent something like 200 messages on the mailing list and written 100 classes. (My count for James Strachan's messages was in the order of 200 as well, to put it into perspective, and the total number of classes in Geronimo ATM is about 600.) [*]
Whilst I respect the PMC's decision(s) about not being made a committer at the moment, I'd like to know what/when does qualify. In the interim, I'd like to find out if there's a way that I can be more productive by working on the JavaMail stuff and being able to commit code without having to send patches/jar files each time. I have a few suggestions:
o Investigate commit access to a sub-part of geronimo (modules/mail and specs/javamail)
o Create a branch of the main software that I can commit to that is not HEAD
o Work on a different cvs repository and merge changes back into Geronimo's JavaMail in bulk
So, please can the PMC/Geronimo's committer team please let me know what can be done about the current situation?
Thanks,
Alex.
[*] Actually, looking through the mailing list, I'm pretty sure that I've contributed the most messages to the discussion. My count was 203, James' 197, Jason 169 and committers less than 100.
