Adding NetSendAppender as a contribution is a good idea. I really wish there was a good approach for integrating contributions without falling into a maintenance trap. Dumping code into the contribs/ directory is unsatisfactory because it does not offer much beyond space but it costs nearly nothing in terms of maintenance. Leaving the author to his or her own devices is not the ideal solution either...
One important point to remember is the copyright notice. It must be Apache copyright. Moreover, the copyright must be assigned to Apache Software Foundation *before* the file enters CVS. Only the author (or the legitimate owner) of the code can legally do that. It does NOT help if Mark or I do it. The contribution with the correct copyright header must also first appear in a public forum. Sending a private email to me or Mark is not acceptable (unless it is verifiably signed.) Sorry to be a pita but this legal stuff is crucial for the continued health of our project. In this particular case, the NetSendAppender.cpp file does not have a copyright notice. Thus, we cannot put that file into CVS until it is assigned the right copyright notice by the author (in a public forum.) At 13:58 12.12.2002 -0800, Mark Womack wrote:
Hi Jay, I will add this contribution to the log4j cvs in your own directory. It looks like the javadoc potion is fairly verbose, but would you like to provide some kind of readme for it? -Mark
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