I'll expand on this by saying is my expectation that we will be able to make svn read/write (and start more directly supporting external contributors) within the next two months. We've done a lot of the foundational work already, so in theory we're pretty close.
jim On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:13 AM, P T Withington wrote: > Perhaps more explanation is needed on that page. The purpose of the > contributor's agreement is not to control contributions, it is to > ensure that the code stays under the CPL license and can continue to > be freely distributed. (If code were inserted that fell under > another license, it could 'contaminate' the whole project.) > > We intend eventually to let anyone who has executed the license > contribute, as long as they follow the peer review procedures. The > main thing holding that step up is finding the time and resources to > move the development branch and team to SVN from p4. Currently SVN > is read-only because it is a one-way mirror of p4. Eventually it > will be read-write for authorized contributors. > > On 2006-03-24 12:41 EST, Denis Bohm wrote: > >> I read through: >> >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/cfaq >> >> From that, it seems like LaszloSystems wants to have very tight >> control >> over any change to OpenLaszlo. That drops my motivation factor for >> contributing back into the base code, since it just seems like a >> lot of >> overhead and long delays even for the simplest of changes. >> (LPP-1623 is >> a good example.) >> >> Are there any plans to make this easier, like many other open source >> projects? Is there a future with subversion and committers from >> outside >> LaszloSystems? >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
