Oh, I'm a lot more than two months behind. ;-) The contrib area is something used by many open source projects to house useful code -- like yours -- which is generally not managed by that project or its committers, but instead by outside contributors. It generally doesn't ship with the project's deliverables (such as would be the case here). It's all about increasing the availability of related code which is useful to project participants, but not necessarily something the maintainers consider core to the project.
You can see the top level of Velocity's contrib area here: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-velocity/contrib/ And the tool-specific area here: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-velocity/contrib/tools/ ...which contains emacs, intellij, jedit, and ultraedit plug-ins. We'd probably start a new area at the same level as "tools" for your contribution. On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 00:06, Tom wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > wow, what a pleasant surprise, after almost two months didn't really > expect a reply anymore. > > Anyway, could you please point me to a howto to understand how this > "contribution area" works? > > Thanks > Tom > > Daniel Rall wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 23:38 -0700, Tom wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>as I think Velocity is not only useful for back-end servers running > >>big applications, I have packaged Velocity to run in the OSGi framework > >>(as a velocity-osgi bundle). > >>Simplifying it a bit, the OSGi framework can be looked at as an open > >>programming standard for embedded servers (www.osgi.org). Its most > >>successfull applications include deployments in cars (BMW) and the > >>plugin architecture for Eclipse M3. > >> > >>What about extending the Velocity build in such a way that it can create > >>the "velocity-osgi" bundle? > > > > > > Tom, we might be able to find a place for your code in the contrib area. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
