You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by John Kristian <jk...@engineer.com> on 2003/11/13 21:15:58 UTC
[CLI] contribution
Dear CLI Developers,
Are you receptive to contributions from non-committers? For example:
If one sent a patch to add some minor improvement, could it conceivably get
into CVS soon? (Assuming it's a real improvement.) What baseline would you
prefer, for such a patch? jakarta-commons/cli or
jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli/src/java/org/apache/commons/cli2? Some branch
or MAIN? Should one send it via this mailing list, or bugzilla?
If one had an idea for new stuff (not closely connected to the fine work
you're doing now), would you entertain a proposal? (I have some such ideas,
I confess.) Do you want to review rough ideas? Not be bothered until a
working prototype is available?
It appears (from skimming jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli) you're in the middle
of a big rewrite; perhaps you don't have time for this sort of thing.
- John Kristian
P.S. If the answers are already in a FAQ somewhere, please tell me where.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org
Re: [CLI] contribution
Posted by John Keyes <jb...@mac.com>.
On 18 Nov 2003, at 23:48, Rob Oxspring wrote:
> Sorry for the slow response - I know I've been taken away from open
> source
> for the last couple of weeks and I guess John's been busy too. We are
> certainly open to contributions from non-committers but seeing a patch
> makes
> it much easier to judge :) Personally I'd prefer patches against
> cli2 but
> that's because I'm aiming to have that codebase adopted for release
> sometime
> soon - by no means a certain thing.
I've been busy but I've been trying to keep an eye on
the mailing lists so I don't know how I missed this.
Apologies for that John and thanks for the interest.
-John K
> Proposing / discussing possible improvements on the list would be a
> good
> start and if things look interesting then someone should create a
> bugzilla
> entry to stop things being lost (sorry if you've entered one already -
> I'll
> check those tomorrow). Whether you need to supply a prototype probably
> depends on whether we understand your idea properly so I'd recommend
> chatting first and supplying code later unless you have things ready
> to go.
>
> Looking forward to your ideas,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Kristian" <jk...@engineer.com>
> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:15 PM
> Subject: [CLI] contribution
>
>
>> Dear CLI Developers,
>>
>> Are you receptive to contributions from non-committers? For example:
>>
>> If one sent a patch to add some minor improvement, could it
>> conceivably
> get
>> into CVS soon? (Assuming it's a real improvement.) What baseline
>> would
> you
>> prefer, for such a patch? jakarta-commons/cli or
>> jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli/src/java/org/apache/commons/cli2? Some
>> branch
>> or MAIN? Should one send it via this mailing list, or bugzilla?
>>
>> If one had an idea for new stuff (not closely connected to the fine
>> work
>> you're doing now), would you entertain a proposal? (I have some such
> ideas,
>> I confess.) Do you want to review rough ideas? Not be bothered
>> until a
>> working prototype is available?
>>
>> It appears (from skimming jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli) you're in the
> middle
>> of a big rewrite; perhaps you don't have time for this sort of thing.
>>
>> - John Kristian
>>
>> P.S. If the answers are already in a FAQ somewhere, please tell me
>> where.
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org
Re: [CLI] contribution
Posted by Rob Oxspring <ro...@imapmail.org>.
Sorry for the slow response - I know I've been taken away from open source
for the last couple of weeks and I guess John's been busy too. We are
certainly open to contributions from non-committers but seeing a patch makes
it much easier to judge :) Personally I'd prefer patches against cli2 but
that's because I'm aiming to have that codebase adopted for release sometime
soon - by no means a certain thing.
Proposing / discussing possible improvements on the list would be a good
start and if things look interesting then someone should create a bugzilla
entry to stop things being lost (sorry if you've entered one already - I'll
check those tomorrow). Whether you need to supply a prototype probably
depends on whether we understand your idea properly so I'd recommend
chatting first and supplying code later unless you have things ready to go.
Looking forward to your ideas,
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kristian" <jk...@engineer.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:15 PM
Subject: [CLI] contribution
> Dear CLI Developers,
>
> Are you receptive to contributions from non-committers? For example:
>
> If one sent a patch to add some minor improvement, could it conceivably
get
> into CVS soon? (Assuming it's a real improvement.) What baseline would
you
> prefer, for such a patch? jakarta-commons/cli or
> jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli/src/java/org/apache/commons/cli2? Some branch
> or MAIN? Should one send it via this mailing list, or bugzilla?
>
> If one had an idea for new stuff (not closely connected to the fine work
> you're doing now), would you entertain a proposal? (I have some such
ideas,
> I confess.) Do you want to review rough ideas? Not be bothered until a
> working prototype is available?
>
> It appears (from skimming jakarta-commons-sandbox/cli) you're in the
middle
> of a big rewrite; perhaps you don't have time for this sort of thing.
>
> - John Kristian
>
> P.S. If the answers are already in a FAQ somewhere, please tell me where.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org