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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian Minchau Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> To xalan-dev@xml.apache.org 02/09/2008 01:15 cc PM Subject Accepting a patch Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] che.org 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? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]