On 7/6/06, Jared Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone, my name is Jared Carroll and I'd like to be added to the
commit list for XAP.
I've emailed to jmargaris some unit tests and bug fixes I've done for
XAP so far (but have not been checked into subversion yet).
The unit tests/fixes are for 'xap/requestservice/RequestService.js' and
'xap/util/HttpUtils.js'
Jared,
Welcome to the XAP project and to Apache! It's great that you've
contributed unit tests and bug fixes, but there are a few things you
should know about how Apache projects handle commit privileges:
- As a meritocracy, projects grant committer status only to someone
who has contributed a series of high quality patches over a sustained
period (usually several months, but every project is different and
there is no solid number). It's obviously a little early for anyone
to have earned that status within xap just yet.
- Initial committers are handled differently since they are voted in
with the rest of the proposal -- you have to bootstrap the project
somehow, and that's how the current set of committers came to be.
- Rather than sending a private email to a committer, you should
instead either send your contribution to the xap-dev list or
(depending on how this particular project would like to do things)
attach the patch to the applicable JIRA issue, even if that means
creating an issue that explains what bug the patch fixes or what new
functionality it adds. By doing one of these things, everyone else on
the list will be able to get to know your work and notice the effort
your putting in.
So, unlike some other open source projects (but like many others), we
don't just grant committer status to anyone who asks -- committership
is something that has to be earned by each individual.
Don't be shy if you have any questions about any of this, and I hope
this doesn't discourage you from continuing to contribute to the
project!
Cliff
