The best way to fix a showstopper in open source is to do it yourself and submit a patch back to the project :-)
If you are asking if your local changes have to be submitted back to ASF, the answer is no. If you are asking what "guaranteed" support services are provided directly by ASF, the answer is none. The project (and community support) is provided on a voluntary basis. http://www.irian.at/ is one possibility for obtaining commercial support for JSF and MyFaces if that's something you want to purchase. A number of the MyFaces committers appear to do work for irian.at. There is currently no process in place for fixing bugs on older release branches, although I'm hopeful that we will start doing so from 1.1.4 onward. On 10/4/06, Ryan Wynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trying to get approval for a myfaces-shale stack in a corporate environment and facing the question of what is the strategy for fixing a production showstopper in the open source code. Anyone have any recommendations on this topic? Or any links regarding the topic? Filing through JIRA does not seem to be an answer for these emergencies because there is really no guarantee there? Especially for previous versions. What is the protocol if say myfaces-1.1.1 src is modified? Is the requirement the same that the fix needs to be looped back in? Or is the policy different for older versions? Thanks for the consideration.
