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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > !EXCUBATOR:1,441fd4a4200621099215105!
Thx for the reply. We will have a look to the maildir patch and check how to integrate it. bye
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