Hi, Martin. Martin von Gagern <martin.vgag...@gmx.net> wrote on 2009-10-12 10:11:00 AM: > found out that in order to commit stuff to the repo myself, > 1. I'd have to be nominated as a committer by some active committer, > 2. I'd have to be approved by 50% of the active committers, > 3. some other active committer would have to review my patches. > > So the key question is: Who are the active committers for Xalan-J?
Let me begin by thanking you for contributions and interest, and let me apologize for not responding sooner. The charter sets the threshold for remaining an active committer very low. From section 8 of the charter: 8.3 Committers remain active as long as they are contributing code or posting to the project or subproject mailing lists. If a committers has neither contributed code nor posted to the mailing lists in 3 months, a member of the PMC will e-mail the committer, the project or subproject development list, and the PMC mailing list notifying the committer that they are now in inactive status. 8.4 An inactive status will not prevent a committer committing new code changes or posting to the mailing lists. Either of these activities will automatically re-activate the committer for the purposes of voting. Looking through the mailing lists from the past few months, I believe Joseph Kesselman is the only committer on the Xalan-Java side of things who has been responding to questions. So we have at least one active committer. (Actually, nobody on the PMC has e-mailed anyone to notify committers of their inactive status, so I'm not sure whether that means all committers are still considered active, or it just means nearly all committers are inactive, and perhaps unaware of it.) In any event I haven't been able to make any time to contribute this year, but I will try to make some time in November to review your patches. By doing so, I should revert to active status (or technically, this e-mail already causes me to revert to active status, but it doesn't really matter, as I won't be able to review your patches for several weeks). Thanks, Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henry Zongaro XML Transformation & Query Development IBM Canada Lab T/L 313-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 mailto:zong...@ca.ibm.com
