Hi, all. I understand that you all are very busy, and don't have time to review and commit (or decide not commit) my suggested changes as fast as I can propose them.
My situation is that I need to get this code working as soon as possible. I have already successfully gotten PDF files to parse by making changes that have not yet been committed (or even proposed). A number of source code changes needed to be made, and some of them were dependent on others of them. This makes it difficult to submit patches that will reliably achieve the desired result unless applied in a specific order. This kind of order, to my knowledge, is not supported by Jira, but would have to be manually followed by a committer. (I suppose one could create a Jira meta-issue where the order of issues to be fixed was specified.) I'd like to ask if you would be willing to grant me committer rights, at least temporarily. There's been no activity for a while, so even if I screwed up (which I doubt I would), you could revert to the earlier version and it would not be a serious problem. I expect that I could make most or all of the changes I would need to make the library functional by the end of this week, and maybe even sooner. I realize this is a lot to ask, especially since you do not yet know me, but I do believe it would benefit the project. Another alternative would be for me to tar up my entire source tree and submit it to you for review. Or, I could always just fork off the existing code base, but I think the project would (IMHO) be foregoing benefit by not using my changes. I'd be willing to initiate an international conference call if that would be helpful. I can call up to two people. Thanks, Keith Bennett -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Request-Committer-Status-or-Other-Direction-tf4431566.html#a12642554 Sent from the Apache Tika - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
