Hi all, We are still discussing on the matter so don't think it won't happen. Apache works with a 'merit' system to let people in, this to make sure that we have active committers.
I'm sure we will find a solution you guys agree with. Cheers, Francis On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Rainer Döbele<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > glad to hear that you are back and I appreciate very much that you are > willing to contribute to our project. > > Unfortunately it's not as easy as I hoped it would be. I was hoping that you > and Benjamin could become committers of our project and that you would get > write access to our SVN this way. Then we could have started a new > sub-project for the DBGenerator with you, Benjamin and other committer > working together. > > Sadly my proposal to do it this way was rejected by our mentors since they > demand that potential new committers must prove their interest in the project > by submitting several patches over the period of a year or more before they > can become committers. Since we're also not allowed to just take over your > code without written permission things are going to be difficult. > > So at the moment I don't see any chance that we could benefit from your work. > All we could do at the moment is take your ideas and implement it ourselves - > which in my opinion would not be fair. Not even sure it would be legal. > This is sad but so are the rules. > > Sorry that I don't have better news. But I will try to find out if there is > another option and let you know. > Regards > > Rainer > > > Thomas Poling wrote: >> Re: suggestions for improving Thomas' DBGenerataor >> >> Greetings All: >> I was on business travel last week so I'm just catching up on the >> emails. >> I agree with almost all the changes suggested - I like the idea of >> getting >> rid of the DB connection specifics and keeping it simple by removing >> all the >> interfaces and finder methods. As people use it we can add commonly >> suggested features later. The only part I'd like to keep are the >> access >> method for simple attributes because this keeps my hand-generated code >> a >> little shorter. >> >> Many thanks for making the EmpireDB driver configurable and for >> Mavenizing >> the project. I guess that now would be a good time to learn Maven :) >> >> I would like to merge all the changes and then maybe put it into the >> svn >> repository. Or should we first put the code into the svn repository >> and >> then merge in the changes? >> >> Thanks, Tom > > -- http://www.somatik.be Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
