Hi, On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:03, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > Brian Jones wrote: > > I tried back in March to get Jeroen into direct commits. ;) What > > about it now Jeroen? > > OK. Thanks. I think Mark wants to set it up though ;-)
I also already offered direct CVS access to Jeroen. Your contributions have been great. I am happy that you now accept this offer. Please let me know your savannah.gnu.org user name. Just so people know how this works. To contribute to GNU Classpath we have a few requirements. First you have to make sure that you read this: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/hacking.html (There is a special requirements section.) Then if you think you meet those requirements and want to make a contribution you have to contact the GNU Classpath maintainer (currently me) to arrange some formalities (copyright assignment/disclaimer). The FSF really wants to make sure that they have the right to distribute your changes and is pretty strict about getting all the legal issues right. (This is a hassle and nobody likes it really, but it makes sure that people can be sure that if the FSF distributes some GNU package they don't have to worry about using the freedoms that the license gives them and that there is a clear entity with standing to sue if someone tries to take those freedoms away.) Note that the above is not necessary for small incidental contributions like a simple bug fix or addition of a trivial method. But if you think you will contribute substantial enhancements to GNU Classpath please contact me. Then you can either send patches to the list to discuss them and let others make suggestion about how to improve them till it is good enough that someone will commit it for you. Or you can ask for direct CVS access so you relieve others from the burden of applying your changes. This means you changes get into the tree sooner, but it is also a big responsibility since then you really have to make sure to do it correctly (good ChangeLog entry, respect the coding conventions, no checkin of anything that could be controversial before announcing it on the list, and above all not break the build!). for CVS access you will have to have an account on savannah.gnu.org and contact the Classpath administrators (currently Brian or me) to add you to the developers list. Note that I don't mind reviewing and checking in other peoples patches myself. It can take a while though. So if it doesn't get applied immediatly you have to be sure to either add them to the savannah patch manager and/or to send a reminder to the list after a while when someone can take another look at it. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
