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svn commit: r507991 - in /incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website:
docs/get-involved.html docs/mail-lists.html xdocs/get-involved.xml
xdocs/mail-lists.xml
Author: schor
Date: Thu Feb 15 08:32:46 2007
New Revision: 507991
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=507991
Log:
No Jira - clarify "get-involved" web page; distinguish between
contributor and committer, also update mailing list page to say
SVN instead of CVS and improve formatting.
Modified:
incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/get-involved.html
incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/mail-lists.html
incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/get-involved.xml
incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/mail-lists.xml
Modified: incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/get-involved.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/get-involved.html?view=diff&rev=507991&r1=507990&r2=507991
==============================================================================
--- incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/get-involved.html (original)
+++ incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/get-involved.html Thu Feb 15 08:32:46 2007
@@ -148,11 +148,31 @@
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p>
-The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions,
-including documentation help, source code and feedback. Suggested
-changes should come in the form of source code and/or very detailed
-and constructive feedback.
-</p>
+The Apache UIMA project is actively seeking new contributors to work on all
+ aspects of the project. We need and appreciate all contributions,
+including documentation help, source code development and feedback.
+ </p>
+ <p>A typical path to contributing might start with joining the
+ <a href="mail-lists.html">UIMA mailing lists</a>
+ where discussions are occuring among the users and developers, and getting a
+ <a href=" http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=0 ">JIRA</a>
+ id and posting feature improvements, bug reports, etc. to the change tracking
+ system we're using.
+ </p>
+ <p>Anyone is invited to contribute to the project; for contributions
+ beyond simple typo fixes or short patches, we request you fill out, sign, and send in
+ Apache's Individual Contributer License Agreement
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">(ICLA)</a> - and if appropriate, the
+ matching Corporate Contributor License Agreement
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">(CCLA)</a>. Then you can post larger
+ patches to Jira issues you raise.
+
+ </p>
+ <p>Contributors who develop a history of successful participation over time are invited
+ to join the project as a <b>committer</b>, which means they will have direct write-access
+ to the SVN repositories for the project.
+ </p>
+ <p>Quick references:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Discussion occurs on the <a href="mail-lists.html">UIMA mailing lists</a>
@@ -179,12 +199,34 @@
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#726982">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
- <a name="How do I become a committer?"><strong>How do I become a committer?</strong></a>
+ <a name="How do I become a contributor or a committer?"><strong>How do I become a contributor or a committer?</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
- <p>If you're interested in committing to the project: </p>
+ <p>Everyone can contribute to UIMA as a contributor; contributors who
+ build up a history of successful contributions over time are invited to
+ become committers. The difference is that committers have direct write
+ access to the project SVN repositories, while contributors post their
+ contributions to Jira issues where they're first reviewed, and then committed
+ by a committer to the project's SVN repository.
+ See <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html">http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html</a>
+ for a good overview of working as a contributor.
+ </p>
+ <p>We ask contributors of significant amounts of code to fill out and
+ send into Apache, an
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Individual
+ Contributors License Agreement (ICLA)</a>
+ (and perhaps also a
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Corporate
+ Contributors License Agreement (CCLA)</a>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you're interested in committing to the project, you need to establish
+ a history over time of successful contributions to the project. After that,
+ you can be invited to become a committer; see
+ <a href="roles.html">this page</a> for more details on this process.
+ </p>
<ul>
<li><p> You'll need to fill out some legal paperwork and go through
a process to get an apache committer account: See
@@ -211,7 +253,11 @@
</p>
</li>
-<li><p> Sign up for a
+</ul>
+ <p>All Contributors and Committers should</p>
+ <ul>
+
+<li><p>Sign up for a
<a class="external" rel="nofollow" href="http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/signup.action">WiKi</a> account.
</p>
</li>
Modified: incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/mail-lists.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/mail-lists.html?view=diff&rev=507991&r1=507990&r2=507991
==============================================================================
--- incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/mail-lists.html (original)
+++ incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/mail-lists.html Thu Feb 15 08:32:46 2007
@@ -152,64 +152,33 @@
There are currently three publicly available mailing lists for UIMA.
The Project's list fall into the following categories:
</p>
- <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
-
-
- <tr><td bgcolor="#9289A2">
- <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
- <a name="User Lists"><strong>User Lists</strong></a>
- </font>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
+ <dl><dt><b>User Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd><p>
User lists are for users of software to converse about such things
as configuration and operating of the software of the Project.
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
- </table>
- <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
-
-
- <tr><td bgcolor="#9289A2">
- <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
- <a name="Developer Lists"><strong>Developer Lists</strong></a>
- </font>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
+ </p></dd>
+
+
+ <dt><b>Developer Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
Developer lists are for the developers of the project. On these
lists suggestions and comments for code changes are discussed and
action items are raised and voted on. For the developer community,
these lists are the very center of the project where all the
"action" is.
</p>
- </blockquote>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
- </table>
- <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
-
-
- <tr><td bgcolor="#9289A2">
- <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
- <a name="Commit Lists"><strong>Commit Lists</strong></a>
- </font>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- The commit lists are where all cvs code commit messages are sent.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><b>Commit Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The commit lists are where all SVN code commit messages are sent.
All committers are required to subscribe to this list so that they
can stay aware of changes to the repository.
</p>
- </blockquote>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
- </table>
+</dd>
+</dl>
<p>
You subscribe and unsubscribe by sending an empty email message to
the list name suffixed with -subscribe or -unsubscribe. The buttons
Modified: incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/get-involved.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/get-involved.xml?view=diff&rev=507991&r1=507990&r2=507991
==============================================================================
--- incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/get-involved.xml (original)
+++ incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/get-involved.xml Thu Feb 15 08:32:46 2007
@@ -30,12 +30,35 @@
<section name="How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?">
<p>
-The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions,
-including documentation help, source code and feedback. Suggested
-changes should come in the form of source code and/or very detailed
-and constructive feedback.
-</p>
+The Apache UIMA project is actively seeking new contributors to work on all
+ aspects of the project. We need and appreciate all contributions,
+including documentation help, source code development and feedback.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>A typical path to contributing might start with joining the
+ <a href="mail-lists.html">UIMA mailing lists</a>
+ where discussions are occuring among the users and developers, and getting a
+ <a href="
+http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=0 ">JIRA</a>
+ id and posting feature improvements, bug reports, etc. to the change tracking
+ system we're using.
+ </p>
+ <p>Anyone is invited to contribute to the project; for contributions
+ beyond simple typo fixes or short patches, we request you fill out, sign, and send in
+ Apache's Individual Contributer License Agreement
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">(ICLA)</a> - and if appropriate, the
+ matching Corporate Contributor License Agreement
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">(CCLA)</a>. Then you can post larger
+ patches to Jira issues you raise.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Contributors who develop a history of successful participation over time are invited
+ to join the project as a <b>committer</b>, which means they will have direct write-access
+ to the SVN repositories for the project.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Quick references:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Discussion occurs on the <a href="mail-lists.html">UIMA mailing lists</a>
@@ -57,8 +80,32 @@
</section>
-<section name="How do I become a committer?">
-<p>If you're interested in committing to the project: </p>
+<section name="How do I become a contributor or a committer?">
+<p>Everyone can contribute to UIMA as a contributor; contributors who
+ build up a history of successful contributions over time are invited to
+ become committers. The difference is that committers have direct write
+ access to the project SVN repositories, while contributors post their
+ contributions to Jira issues where they're first reviewed, and then committed
+ by a committer to the project's SVN repository.
+ See <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html">http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html</a>
+ for a good overview of working as a contributor.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>We ask contributors of significant amounts of code to fill out and
+ send into Apache, an
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Individual
+ Contributors License Agreement (ICLA)</a>
+ (and perhaps also a
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Corporate
+ Contributors License Agreement (CCLA)</a>).
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ If you're interested in committing to the project, you need to establish
+ a history over time of successful contributions to the project. After that,
+ you can be invited to become a committer; see
+ <a href="roles.html">this page</a> for more details on this process.
+ </p>
<ul>
<li><p> You'll need to fill out some legal paperwork and go through
a process to get an apache committer account: See
@@ -89,7 +136,12 @@
</p>
</li>
-<li><p> Sign up for a
+</ul>
+
+ <p>All Contributors and Committers should</p>
+ <ul>
+
+<li><p>Sign up for a
<a class="external" rel="nofollow"
href="http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/signup.action">WiKi</a> account.
</p>
Modified: incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/mail-lists.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/mail-lists.xml?view=diff&rev=507991&r1=507990&r2=507991
==============================================================================
--- incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/mail-lists.xml (original)
+++ incubator/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/xdocs/mail-lists.xml Thu Feb 15 08:32:46 2007
@@ -36,14 +36,15 @@
The Project's list fall into the following categories:
</p>
- <subsection name="User Lists">
- <p>
- User lists are for users of software to converse about such things
- as configuration and operating of the software of the Project.
- </p>
- </subsection>
-
- <subsection name="Developer Lists">
+ <dl><dt><b>User Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd><p>
+ User lists are for users of software to converse about such things
+ as configuration and operating of the software of the Project.
+ </p></dd>
+
+
+ <dt><b>Developer Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd>
<p>
Developer lists are for the developers of the project. On these
lists suggestions and comments for code changes are discussed and
@@ -51,16 +52,17 @@
these lists are the very center of the project where all the
"action" is.
</p>
- </subsection>
+ </dd>
- <subsection name="Commit Lists">
+ <dt><b>Commit Lists</b></dt>
+ <dd>
<p>
- The commit lists are where all cvs code commit messages are sent.
+ The commit lists are where all SVN code commit messages are sent.
All committers are required to subscribe to this list so that they
can stay aware of changes to the repository.
</p>
- </subsection>
-
+</dd>
+</dl>
<p>
You subscribe and unsubscribe by sending an empty email message to