----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Oddson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 11:17 AM Subject: Question...
> Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this and > couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO. > > How does this development effort work? > > a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the committers or PMC? As Mike mentioned, neither the PMC nor the committers has the authority to assign work to project members. The committers are responsible for ensuring that changes are okay before they get committed to CVS. > b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the > specific tasks? This happens. > c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to Xerces > functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it? This also happens. > I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the > detail of the process. > > Again apologies, I am just eager to help out. > We're eager to have people help out. I'll repost the STATUS file for the Java project (Andy can do the same for C++) to give you an idea of things that we know we need to do. If you want to add more to that feel free. The STATUS file in CVS is supposed to represent the canonical task list. Part of the reason it's ambiguous how the process works is that the process can work in many ways. Let us know how you want to help or what feature you want to add and we can go from there. Ted
