Am Dienstag, den 21.03.2006, 11:22 +0100 schrieb Stefano Bagnara:
> 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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Thx for the reply. We will have a look to the maildir patch and check
how to integrate it. 

bye

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