If a project committer makes a significant (say > 1000 lines of code) contribution and the contribution is "new" content (by which I mean a completely new file or piece of content; not modifications to existing content in the project), does that necessarily count as an "initial contribution" under the IP process?
The specific example we've got is the contribution of our coding standard, which is more than 1000 lines (yeah, I know) of markdown. Up until this point, we did not have a documented coding standard, so technically it's "new content" but I have to admit, I felt kind of silly opening a CQ for it (which I did anyway under the guise of "better safe than sorry" : see https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134 if you're really interested). It was contributed by a project committer so doesn't directly fall under the "> 1000 lines" rule for non committers. Do we need a CQ for such content? Later on, one of our committers will be contributing several hundred thousand lines of Just In Time compiler code. That code, I will obviously treat as "initial contribution", but looking for some guidance on where the threshold is for this kind of thing and how pedantic I should be about it. Mark Stoodley 8200 Warden Avenue Senior Software Developer Markham, L6G 1C7 IBM Runtime Technologies Canada Phone: +1-905-413-5831 e-mail: [email protected] We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them - Albert Einstein
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