contrib directory

["Shapira, Yoav" <Yo...@mpi.com>]

Hi,
Yeah, it's gone for now.  The reason is that the maintenance aspect is
too hard for the long term.  While I don't doubt the quality of you (or
anyone else's) work, nothing is perfect.  It is inevitable that the
scripts will need work.  Even if you stay on top of it and keep
submitting patches, someone will have to keep checking for them and
applying them.  

I'm not interested in doing that work, and other committers apparently
aren't interested enough to even comment on what an appropriate place in
CVS might be for these contributions. So I took them out for now.

That's not to say they're gone forever.  I can see a couple of possible
solutions, and that's why I'm doing this thread on tomcat-dev as opposed
to just replying to you personally.

One approach is what I'm doing now: contributed stuff is owned by
authors (like you) who post it wherever they want (hp.com, personal web
sites, whatever), and we link to it from our FAQ and/or wiki pages.
This approach solves the long-term maintenance concerns.

If this was a one-time effort, I would have done it and we'd be all set
by now.  But it's not, and I just don't have the bandwidth to work it ;(
Another approach is for someone else with commit privileges to say
they're interested and do what they think is appropriate.  That can
happen at any time, I wouldn't stand in their way obviously, as I'm not
principally objecting to these contributions.  I just don't have the
bandwidth to deal with them at this point.

So this issue is not dead.  It's just not going to be in 5.0.30/5.5.4.
We might also want to raise it on tomcat-user to see if people have
other creative approaches to solving this.

>Are you really going to take the contrib directory out?  I was just
>about to make a contribution to you via PayPal as a thank you...

Thank you ;)

Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com



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Re: contrib directory

[Leslie Kishalmi <lk...@freemail.hu>]

Dear all,

  I'm willing to spend some of my limited free time to collect, organize 
and maintain these contributed code.
However, it is very unlikely that I would be ever a committer on this 
project with my OS/2 launchers.
So, as Yoav said, we could find an other committer. Or we could create 
an other project something like
tomcat-contrib where we maintain our code.

Best regards,
Leslie Kishalmi

Shapira, Yoav wrote:

>Hi,
>Yeah, it's gone for now.  The reason is that the maintenance aspect is
>too hard for the long term.  While I don't doubt the quality of you (or
>anyone else's) work, nothing is perfect.  It is inevitable that the
>scripts will need work.  Even if you stay on top of it and keep
>submitting patches, someone will have to keep checking for them and
>applying them.  
>
>I'm not interested in doing that work, and other committers apparently
>aren't interested enough to even comment on what an appropriate place in
>CVS might be for these contributions. So I took them out for now.
>
>That's not to say they're gone forever.  I can see a couple of possible
>solutions, and that's why I'm doing this thread on tomcat-dev as opposed
>to just replying to you personally.
>
>One approach is what I'm doing now: contributed stuff is owned by
>authors (like you) who post it wherever they want (hp.com, personal web
>sites, whatever), and we link to it from our FAQ and/or wiki pages.
>This approach solves the long-term maintenance concerns.
>
>If this was a one-time effort, I would have done it and we'd be all set
>by now.  But it's not, and I just don't have the bandwidth to work it ;(
>Another approach is for someone else with commit privileges to say
>they're interested and do what they think is appropriate.  That can
>happen at any time, I wouldn't stand in their way obviously, as I'm not
>principally objecting to these contributions.  I just don't have the
>bandwidth to deal with them at this point.
>
>So this issue is not dead.  It's just not going to be in 5.0.30/5.5.4.
>We might also want to raise it on tomcat-user to see if people have
>other creative approaches to solving this.
>
>  
>
>>Are you really going to take the contrib directory out?  I was just
>>about to make a contribution to you via PayPal as a thank you...
>>    
>>
>
>Thank you ;)
>
>Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com
>
>
>
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