Thanks Robert - Adam I'm looking at what you've contributed - will probably have some questions soon :-)
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Adam Pilkington > <pilkington.a...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > hi adam > > > as part of the process of familiarising myself with JSR 326 and Kato > > I've created a couple of Eclipse plugins that I would like to contribute > to > > the project. > > cool > > > They are usable at the moment, but not quite finished, and I > > would rather have them in a source repository and continue working from > > there rather than my hard disk :-). I've signed that Apache CLA and > created > > Jira items for each plugin (granting Apache the rights to the code), but > I'm > > not a committer for the Kato project and I'm not exactly sure how the > > process works from here ... ? > > (i'm a mentor for kato during incubation. this means i try to help > kato develop into a viable self-organised community. usually, one of > the committers would post something similar but IIRC this is first > time so i'm going to jump in) > > if you haven't taken a look yet, > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html is a good place to > start > > hopefully one of the committers will take a look at the patch sometime > soon. they should review and - if they are happy - commit it, perhaps > after making a few changes. > > (reviewing patches promptly is really important for the health of > apache projects. this is the way that new committers are recruited.) > > committers are elected (by the existing committer) based on their > contributions. so, if you continue to submit patches (and learn from > whatever changes happen to be needed) then (on the private list) an > existing committer will propose your name for election. if that vote > passes then you'll be invited to become a committer. > > - robert >
