On 15 December 2014 at 08:25, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > 2014-12-15 4:02 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: >> >> 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 >> > > Very nice! I'll send the announcement tonight.
+1 I think this is an excellent idea. > > Benedikt > > >> >> >> 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 >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > >> > >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > -- > 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