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Posted to dev@harmony.apache.org by Mark Hindess <ma...@googlemail.com> on 2006/07/05 17:28:41 UTC
Re: [announce] New Apache Harmony Committer : Weldon Washburn
Congratulations Weldon!
-Mark.
On 5 July 2006 at 11:01, Geir Magnusson Jr <ge...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Please join the Apache Harmony PPMC in welcoming the project's newest
> committer, Weldon Washburn.
>
> Weldon was one of the initial committers listed on the original Harmony
> proposal. Incubator tradition is such that listed committers be granted
> committer status immediately, but we've altered that process a little
> and look for continued commitment, participation, alignment and
> contribution. Weldon certainly has participated beyond the initial
> proposal in both our community discussions as well as code
> contributions, most significantly in the classpath library adapter,
> which we hope this committer status will make it easier to finish :)
>
> We all expect continued participation and contribution.
>
> Weldon, as a first step to test your almighty powers of committership,
> please update the committers page on the website. That should be a good
> (and harmless) exercise to test if everything is working.
>
> Things to do :
>
> 1) test ssh-ing to the server people.apache.org.
> 2) Change your login password on the machine as per the account email
> 3) Add a public key to .ssh so you can stop using the password
> 4) Change your svn password as described in the account email
>
> At this point, you should be good to go. Checkout the website from svn
> and update it. See if you can figure out how.
>
> Also, for your main harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk please be sure that
> you have checked out via 'https' and not 'http' or you can't check in.
> You can switch using "svn switch". (See the manual)
>
> Finally, although you now have the ability to commit, please remember :
>
> 1) continue being as transparent and communicative as possible. You
> earned committer status in part because of your engagement with others.
> While it was a "have to" situation because you had to submit patches
> and defend them, but we believe it is a "want to". Community is the key
> to any Apache project.
>
> 2)We don't want anyone going off and doing lots of work locally, and
> then committing. Committing is like voting in Chicago - do it early and
> often. Of course, you don't want to break the build, but keep the
> "commit bombs" to an absolute minimum, and warn the community if you are
> going to do it - we may suggest it goes into a branch at first. Use
> branches if you need to.
>
> 3) Always remember that you can **never** commit code that comes from
> someone else, even a co-worker. All code from someone else must be
> submitted by the copyright holder (either the author or author's
> employer, depending) as a JIRA, and then follow up with the required
> ACQs and BCC.
>
>
> Again, thanks for your hard work so far, and welcome.
>
> The Apache Harmony PPMC
>
>
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