Here's what I know. Hopefully a more authoritative voice chimes in. > 1. What is the process of donating plugins to maven.apache?
Donating code in general; You'll need to do one or both of the following; fax or mail a signed Corporate Contributor License Agreement or Software Grant; http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt or http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt If you're an individual contributing then its the individual CLA. It's totally UNclear what constitutes a "body" of work, as opposed to a patch / contribution to an existing project or body of work. My thinking is that the CLA is appropriate for your contribution and not a grant, but I'm no expert. This page discusses the process: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html , and this page links to the various licenses http://www.apache.org/licenses/ > 2. How long does it take to go through this process? - CLA Process: Discuss if the community wants the patches such as you're doing here. Send in the CLA paperwork. Apply the Apache 2.0 license to your work. Send patch(es), usually using the project's issue tracking tool. - Grant Process: If you have to do the software grant process, I'm not sure how long it takes or how it works. > 3. Are there any requirements/obligations for further support of these > plugins on my part? Not as far as I'm aware unless you want to. I think the operative word(s) are require or obligated. Normally people want to see their contributions through. Of course there's no obligation for the committers of a project to apply the patches or contributions. To that end you should try to re-format your contribution to fit the project's style guidelines, as well as provide unit-tests, documentation, etc. ** One note: The fact the optional plugin's are hosted on Sourceforge.net and not on Apache.org tells me that all of the above may or may not apply. ?? I don't think these codebases are technically ASF anymore? Anyone else know? ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
