On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Spencer Uresk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > - GitHub... don't message me on GitHub. None of the Lift committer > will > > pull from your repository. The Lift IP is clean which means that > unless you > > are a committer and you have written the code yourself, it doesn't get > into > > Lift. This allows businesses to use Lift knowing what the provenance > of the > > code is. > > Sorry if I'm being dense, but does this include patches for small > enhancements and bug fixes? > > For example, I posted a message on the list about some limitations in > the Mailer configuration. I made some small modifications to the class > so that it works better in shared vm environments, but I'd like to see > those changes (or at least similar functionality) make it back into > Lift because 1) I think it would be useful to other people, and 2) > maintaining my own Mailer for all my projects causes a maintenance > penalty that I'm interested in not paying in the long term. What is > the best thing I can do to help make that happen? In most communities > I've been involved with in the past, the answer is "Submit a patch!", > but it appears that may not be the case here. What we usually do in cases like this is that we'll look at the approach, but do our own implementation. In the case of your mailer enhancements, they or something very close to them will make it into Lift. So, we don't take the "submit a patch approach", but we do get the features into Lift. > > > And FYI - the Mailer issue isn't really that critical, I'm just using > it as an example. > > Thanks, > > - Spencer > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
