On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Eric Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Grig,
>>
>> Glad to hear you're interested in contributing.  Yes, this community is very 
>> open to outside contributors.  The right way to contribute, as you said, is 
>> to open a ticket on JIRA and upload relevant patches.  A committer will 
>> apply, review, and commit your patch.  With enough contributions you can 
>> eventually become a committer.
>>
>> Returning the tuple as you described is a viable option.  I can also see 
>> returning a dictionary mapping the values (my preference).  While there are 
>> multiple solutions, I think it comes down to preference.  Paul or Jerry or 
>> some of the main python contributors would be better suited to comment as I 
>> mostly work on the Java version.
>>
>> Eric W.
>>
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, Eric. I'll go ahead and open a JIRA issue
> then and attach a patch. I like the dictionary variant better myself,
> so I'll do that.

Thanks, merged in r1004499:
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1004499

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