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Posted to general@xml.apache.org by Shane Curcuru <sh...@yahoo.com> on 2005/05/17 17:05:26 UTC
Re: No ICLA for some authors in Sun's JAXP 1.3 donation
I don't have a particular opinion on the author tags; it sounds like
we're happy enough with the code at this point.
In terms of voting in new committers, any ASF community - xml-commons
included - would be happy to consider voting in anyone who shows an
active interest in working in the project over a period of time.
Participation on the mailing lists and code patches are the kinds of
things I'd look for. In general, I would not generally nominate a new
committer myself just because they (and their employer's team of
developers) just donated a chunk of code to an existing community.
- Shane (catching up on old mail...)
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What I would do is just remove the names from the code, and in the
>>>>> commit message, note that you are removing as they are internal Sun
>>>>> committers, that their work was done at Sun before the
>>>>> contribution was
>>>>> made, and you are removing them to eliminate the confusion that
>>>>> arose.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would prefer that my @author stay intact.
>>>> I have just sent in an ICLA.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't matter for this case - the existence of the author tags
>>> reflects work that happened before the software was donated to
>>> Apache, so from a legal standpoint, it's moot. I know this may come
>>> across as harsh, and I don't mean to be - the use of author tags is
>>> a community issue (and a generally contentious one!) and one that
>>> the ASF board has recommended against. However it is up to the
>>> individual project to decide how author tags are handled.
>>>
>> My opinion would be not to remove the author tag. Author tag shows
>> the contribution of a person and is a good contact point in case any
>> one needs to clarifiy certain behavior. Actually it would be good if
>> Jeff can be made a committer as part of the code grant because of his
>> contribution in so many files. His becoming committer would also be
>> good for the ASF project and the community.
>
>
> That's entirely up to the community :)
>
> geir
>
>>
>> - Neeraj
>>
>>> Personally, I'd find it utterly baffling to find an author tag in
>>> the file with no related commit by that author. An alternative to
>>> just erasing them, in order to preserve that information in some
>>> way, would be to move it to the NOTICE file for the project?
>>>
>>> An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a
>>> committer. you do have the paperwork done :)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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