On 26 January 2014 19:47, Duncan Jones <dun...@wortharead.com> wrote: > On 26 January 2014 18:49, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hi Duncan, >> >> >> 2014/1/26 Duncan Jones <dun...@wortharead.com> >> >>> On 26 January 2014 13:33, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > we've fixed some bugs and we have some nice new features implemented >>> > (DiffBuilder, Jaro-Winkler Distance, RandomUtils, ClassPathUtils), so I'm >>> > planning to cut a RC in the first week of February. >>> > >>> > I just wanted to know if there is anything you'd like to have included in >>> > the next release. Then please tag it with fix version 3.3. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > Benedikt >>> > >>> >>> I'm debating whether LANG-341 might be a candidate for inclusion. The >>> patch is fairly complete, just needs Javadocs and a couple of >>> additional unit tests, which I can sort over the coming week. What do >>> you guys think? It seems like a useful addition to me. >>> >> >> Yes looks neat. The problem I'm seeing is, that the last activity is from >> Nov 2011, and the contributor has no ICLA listed (see [1]), so IP is not >> absolutely clear. I'm unsure if we can use this contribution without the >> ICLA. Anyway, Hen has contributed the patch Vincent Ricard used, so we can >> use Hen's patch and improve it. >> >> Benedikt >> >> [1] http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unlistedclas >> > > Good point. I think in this case I'll ping the contributor to get > their thoughts on an ICLA and assume this will miss v3.3. He's done a > lot of work to extend Hen's patch and it would be a shame for that not > to get committed if he's interested. If there's no reply (or no > interest), I'll sort something for v3.4. >
Having said that... does this still represent a problem if the contributor has patched existing code (containing the Apache license)? Are there any situations where we can take a patch and apply it to trunk without the contributor having an ICLA? I certainly had patches applied in the past without an ICLA, but perhaps things were more lax then? >> >>> >>> Duncan >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >> http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >> http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >> http://github.com/britter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
