@4) no need for that; once you're through the review process the apply
happens within 24 hours (different time/work zones :-)). BTW, your
pull request is almost through the pipe. Just waiting for two minor
corrections and a new patch at the jira issue to get it in :-)

Kind regards,
Andreas

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Andrei Pozolotin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> no, I have improvement on that git.html:
>
> 1) do all your work on github mirror via fork/pull
>
> 2) discuss your github pulls on ASF jira
>
> 3) when jira is accepted, do the "git format-patch origin/trunk"
> and attach patch.txt to the jira with ASF grant check box
>
> 4) now pray to your favorite ASF committer to really accept the patch
>
> :-)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: switch to github
> From: Johan Edstrom <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri 17 Aug 2012 06:52:45 PM CDT
>
> It is really clear.
> http://www.apache.org/dev/git.html
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Brian Topping <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When you are not committer on a project, and you contribute a patch, you
> have to explicitly grant your license to ASF. To do that, you just mention
> it by checking "Grant ASF" when attaching the file to the Jira.
>
> Yes, i appreciate that, but I thought we were trying to clarify whether
> Github pulls were acceptable means of providing patches.  It seems that they
> are not acceptable for non-committers, so the fact that there are pull
> requests obscures the fact that those pull requests are unusable and
> therefore not statistically relevant.
>
> Having said that, it would be good to concretely clarify that Github pulls
> are not acceptable for non-committers, avoiding any interpretation that
> Github is a means by which non-committers can provide value to the project.
> It's important because it is actually very difficult in my experience to get
> patches applied, which dissuades people from contributing and makes it
> appear that nobody is interested when there may in fact be many folks
> interested in contributing but find it too unproductive to do so.  These
> misinterpretations are very damaging to a project since valuable
> contributions (however small or unimportant to one group) are never made,
> and folks of a mindset similar to the person who never contributed do not in
> turn ever start using the project because these features never made it in.
>
> This is very much an anti-pattern in ASF projects, but I've found it pretty
> common as well, so please don't interpret this as me calling out Karaf in
> particular.
>
> Brian
>
>

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