Thanks for all your responses, before i start, i will checkout the code and start understanding the existing design for some time... i will pick up the JIRAs once i am confident!
Regards, John On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Craig L Russell <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Emmanuel, > > > On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: > > Craig L Russell wrote: >> >>> If John intends to contribute more than a patch or two, and more than a >>> few lines of code, he should file an ICLA. It's free, easy, and makes it >>> easier on everyone. >>> >> That's definitively an option. The only issue with this is the delay >> (probably a week or two). >> > > ICLA's are now processed the day they arrive, so any delay will be on the > sender's side. This is different from committership which takes between a > day and a month, once the vote is held, depending on workload and timing of > the admin team and timing of the request. > > >> JIRA attachements are most probably the best way before committership is >> granted : >> o JIRAs stay in the team's way >> o One can attach doco in JIRAs (in other words: JIRA is not only for bad >> code ;) >> > > Certainly JIRA attachments are suitable for documentation and code. > > But I'd say that JIRA is a bad way to update a wiki, because wikis don't > typically offer patch services. > > Craig > > > Craig L Russell > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://db.apache.org/jdo > 408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected] > P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > >
