The life cyle for a patch is this:
1) Open a JIRA issue at http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
against the appropriate project (XalanJ2 or XalanC)
2) Besides describing the problem, also attach the patch, be sure to check
the box that gives Apache the license rights, or else we are dead in the
water on using it.
3) A Xalan committer (someone with write access to the code base) needs to
review/approve the patch and adds such comments to the issue, and a
commiter (probably the same person) would commit the changes to the code
base.
4) The changes are available via extraction of the main branch in SVN and
you can build the binaries yourself, or you can wait for the next release.

If your patch gets some attention the life cycle would be a few weeks. Of
course the time to a new release is longer than that (6 months?  A year?)

On step 3, you may be wondering when one would attach a file and not give
Apache the rights. This may be a testcase, which would help in finding a
fix to a problem, yet not be code that you want Apache to include or use in
other ways.

- Brian
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What is the life cycle for accepting a patch. Is there a feed back about
the submitted code ?
How long the whole process will it take?



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