Norman Maurer wrote:
I wonder how many commiters are on the james project cause i only see
one. This is maybe why it takes such long to get bugfixes and changes to
svn? Is there really only one ? And if it is so , the question is why..
AFAIK there are 10 committers (http://james.apache.org/weare.html + Mike
Heath and me)
In the last year I've been the most active (I've been the last one to
become committer).
I think the answer to "why" is because James has a small developer base
and it takes a few to understand how james internals works. There are no
unittests and it is SO EASY to break something if you don't understand
the whole thing.
Thanks goes to Bernd for the introduction of a few unittests that
hopefully will guide us to write more and have a better product with a
shorter release cycle.
We would to like to help develop james and make it better then it is
now. Dont get me wrong it is a very nice and stable mailserver but in
such project are every time things that can be make better or features
which should be add. We are also contribute on turbine..
You can bring your help as a contributor too! (look at the Bernd example)
If it would help we can rework the patch contributet by alex to add
maildir support and other features .. After that we could test it here.
So you guys are intressted ?
Indeed!
Please keep in mind that we cannot ship GPL stuff with James, so if you
want to include maildir you have to do that in a modular way and add
documentation on how to download and include the maildir jar.
Unittests for new things would be appreciated (necessary?) too.
I think the best way to present yourself and your skills to other
committers is to provide good patches proving your understanding of the
project.
Furthermore there are the social/collaboration issues. You can start at
http://www.apache.org/ in the right column you'll find a "How it works"
and "Get Involved" sections.
Stefano
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