Hi, 2012/7/19 Adrian Gschwend <[email protected]>: > What would be the way to go for extending the current > components to introduce our requirements? Should we fork it first or do > you prefer other ways of working on it?
All discussions regarding fundamental code changes should happen on this dev list. At Apache we follow the credo that if something was not discussed on the list, then it did not happen ;) So start the discussion threads that you need on this list. Then you should open separated JIRA issues for the things discussed on the list. Having a JIRA issue, you are able to attach patch files with your code changes to that issue. Do not send the patches to this list as large attachments are not supported. A committer will take that patch and apply it after a review to the code base. This is a rather time consuming process. So after several patches and when the community believes that you contribute good patches, you may be invited to become a committer. That is not so hard as it may sound. This is just a small barrier to see if people are really interested in contributing to the project. Committer are always individual persons and never organisations or a group of people. Best, - Fabian -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
