> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Waldhoff, Rodney wrote:
>
> > Or submit a patch. It'd be nice to at least pretend jakarta-commons
> > operates like any other jakarta sub-project, as it says in the charter.
(No
> > offense, but I don't know you from Adam. I can't just +1 you as a
committer
> > sight unseen. I'm sure you're patch is great, so submit it as such, and
> > then nominate yourself as a committer.)
>
> In fact, this situation illustrates one of the social issues we need to be
> sensitive about when migrating packages out of other projects and into the
> commons.
>
> The source of the httpclient package code *was* the jakarta-slide project,
> where Dirk is a committer, and where this code was in use. (In the same
> way, digester and beanutils came originally from Struts, where it's been
> in use for over a year).
>
> We should applaud people willing to contribute packages to commons "for
> the common good". We should probably modify the charter to somehow confer
> committer status on the same code that these individuals had committer
> status on before. But we should also be sensitive to arbitrarily changing
> APIs that the original "source" project depends on, without gaining
> agreement (Yes, I understand that it was unwitting in this case, but Dirk
> isn't somebody who wandered in off the street :-).
Yes, this makes a lot of sense.
+1.
Remy
