Hi, I'll be in holidays for the next 10 days so I can tell you more later.
A first quick information: The usermanagement pane was added within STANBOL-721. This version had very obvious bugs, this issue is to fix some of this bugs. The legal aspects: I've been resolving this issues together with Danny Ayers using a git repository. I take the full responsibility for the code. As I paid Danny's company for Danny's work and the intented the purpose of the coding (i.e. contribution to Apache Stanbol) was clear I believe that I'm the copyright holder for this code. I'm sure that if I'm not the copyright holder Danny is willing to contribute the code to Apache. @Danny: could you please confirm this. The process aspect: I think changes of functionality or larger new components should be discussed on the mailing list. I don't think that this is the case for fixing obvious bugs. An example for a compatibility breaking change is STANBOL-806 it is certainly very important to inform downstream integrators (i.e. have a mail on the user list clearly informing about the consequences) about the change of the artifact names especially since this is done without prior releases of the artifacts under their old name. Major new functionality affecting many components like STANBOL-105 would also ideally be discussed more on the list. Requiring every bug to be posted once on the list and submitted to jira seems like unnecessary formalism to me. Cheers, Reto On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Fabian Christ <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen a patch for the user management submitted by Reto with the > comment that this patch was originally from "Danny Ayers via fusepool > github". [1] > > [1] http://stanbol.markmail.org/thread/pldhvsgcwcl3qoxm > > First, again there was no discussion about user management features on > the dev list. So this feature does not exist by our definition of > using the dev list. What is not on the list - did not happen. > > Second, there is no record that Danny wanted to contribute. This is > not the way code and patches should come into the code base. How do we > know that Danny, as the copyright holder, wanted to contribute this to > Stanbol? > > Such a way of doing things creates the impression that some people in > the fusepool project are developing things, which may be nice to have, > but refuse to interact with the Stanbol community and instead submit > their code via other committers. > > So please, encourage people to submit their patches via our typical > channels in Jira. Discuss things on the dev mailing list. > > All contributions are really welcome but do not forget about the community. > > Best, > - Fabian > > -- > Fabian > http://twitter.com/fctwitt >
