Emmanuel Sciara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is the decision made then (newby question)?
See the guidelines section on the jakarta website to get a feeling for how this community works. Basically, if you want a new feature, you have two options (1) implement it yourself and send a patch to this list or (2) convince (bribe 8-) somebody else to implement it. If (2) is your choice and that somebody is a committer, well, than it probably has been decided. In all other cases, the patch will eventually be picked up, maybe after a long time and maybe without any further comments, by a committer and that's it. Sometimes, patches get simply ignored - due to several reasons, mainly lack of time. In this case, remind people of your patch - and please be gentle 8-) In the special case of <metainf> and <jar>, option (2) kicks in as you've already found somebody with commit access to implement it. Unless I hear somebody say "no don't do it", that is. Stefan
