This will be my first attempt to directly add to an FOSS project. Even tho' I am very comfortable with CVS command line (and eclipse/gcvs too).... I wanted to know whether I can do the following :-
use anon pserver login to checkout the latest src. Try something. If it works, request non-anon access in this mailing list. merge. and ci. ------------------ Now I still haven't even started working on how to implement global level validation. So, if I can't come up with something **soon**, I won't. Also if my attempts at mastering latest Validator succeeds, I may end up doing nothing (other than send another email to this list ;-) ). So, any important tips? especially on the merge part above (which many should have winced when they saw it).
If you are going to contribute stuff to validator, you need to take a look at the Jakarta Commons Validator project as well. Struts handles some of it, but Commons Validator is where the meat and potatoes of validation are handled.
Struts recently converted its source repository to SVN from CVS, so you will need to start using that instead to contribute to Struts. Commons Validator still uses CVS as far as I know though.
For now your process will be to checkout the latest source, make the change, create a patch using diff, submit a bug report to bugzilla with a description of the change and the patch. If you do that enough you may someday get non-anonymous access to the repository (they'll let you know :) )
Take a look at subscribing to the Jakarta Commons user and dev lists, as well as the Struts dev list, and search around on the Apache, Struts and Jakarta pages for information about helping out.
All I can think of for now...
Matt
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