Nice move;
This is actually the way I thought commons worked ("when I was a kid")
until I learned that I did not understand how commons worked :)
Kristian
2014-12-15 6:27 GMT+01:00 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com>:
> On Dec 14, 2014 9:04 PM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nice feedback all around. Here is a version that includes some of these
>> thoughts:
>> --
>>
>> Dear fellow committers,
>>
>> The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce that write access to the
>> Apache Commons Subversion and Git repositories has been granted to all ASF
>> committers.
>>
>> Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable
> Java
>> components. As such, the components maintained by the Apache Commons
> project
>> may be of interest to a variety of other Apache projects.
>>
>> The Apache Commons community would like to invite you to share and
> maintain
>> useful code.
>>
>> While Apache Commons is a Commit-Then-Review community, we would consider
>> it polite and helpful for contributors to announce their intentions and
>> plans on the dev mailing list before committing code.
>>
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> The Apache Commons Community.
>> --
>> Gary
>>
>
> Sounds good.
>
> Matt
>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:57:02 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 12/14/14 12:49 PM, Gilles wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:28:37 +0100, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> here is my draft for the announcement to committers@
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Regards,
>> >>>> Benedikt
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ------
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dear fellow committers,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> the Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce that write access
>> >>>> to the
>> >>>> Apache Commons SVN and git repositories has been granted to all ASF
>> >>>> committers.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of
>> >>>> reusable Java
>> >>>> components. As such the components maintained by the Apache
>> >>>> Commons project
>> >>>> may be of interest for a variety of other Apache projects.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The Apache Commons community would like to invite you to share
>> >>>> useful code
>> >>>> which may be useful for other projects as well.
>> >>>> Please let us know before you start working on the code, by
>> >>>> writing a short
>> >>>> mail to the dev mailing list [1].
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I'd be more careful (better safe than sorry) and add something like:
>> >>>
>> >>> [...] before committing code, consensus about the modifications
>> >>> should be
>> >>> reached on the dev ML.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> We are CTR so that is not necessary. We might just want to refer to
>> >> and update [1].
>> >>
>> >
>> > IMHO, it is more efficient to discuss first (with the assumption that
>> > no objection amounts to green light).
>> >
>> > The upshot there is that before starting to commit
>> >> to a component, it is polite to announce intention to start working
>> >> on it and let people know what you have in mind.
>> >>
>> >
>> > In the same vein, it is more polite to ask first whether there is an
>> > objection).
>> > It is also nicer, for all parties, to not have to veto a commit.
>> >
>> >
>> > Gilles
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Phil
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CommonsEtiquette
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Gilles
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Benedikt Ritter,
>> >>>> on behalf of the Apache Commons community
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [1] http://commons.apache.org/mail-lists.html
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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