On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 17:38 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > ... > > > You explain the authors the most with patches. > > I don't see how that could be true. > > A report that includes the problem text, suggested replacement text, > an explanation of why the problem text isn't right and why the > replacement text is right (and maybe reminder that many other parts > of the documentation have the same problem) contains a lot more > information that a patch to one file (with only old and new text).
please don't feel that your careful report was in any being denigrated but appreciate that patches are the lifeblood of any apache project. the act of creating a patch means you are contributing to the future of jaxme by becoming a developer. only developers can grow into committers. without a healthy community of users, developers and committers, an apache project must atrophy and die. creating a patch demonstrates to the community that you have mastered the basic skills required to be a jaxme developer. with sustained contributions over time, you may eventually be elected a committer and be entitled to cast binding vote's concerning the future of JaxMe. one day, you might be elected onto the pmc for web services at apache and help guide the way the whole project progress. it is even possible that (several years hence) you might even be elected an apache member and so have an equal stake in the entire apache enterprise. but it all starts with a single patch... > > Besides, note that I > > won't find the time to integrate your suggestions. > > Well, yes, you can refuse to fix the problem (and, more importantly, > refuse to learn how to avoid creating more instances of the same problem); > I can't stop you. However, I would hope that you cared enough about the > usability of JaxMeXS to not refuse. jochen is a volunteer. he codes jaxme in his own free time. there's no doubting his commitment. there's an tradition here at apache that volunteers must be free to follow their own fickle star. we all scratch our own itches and decide our own priorities. we all have jobs which need to be held down and (surprising as it may seem) other facets to our lives. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
