--- Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will probably have some time next month to write a > proposal on how our > two projects can move closer together to make the > code sharing happen. > > Jeremias Maerki >
Ummm...Jeremias, remember, your recent nominations for FOP committers included those who don't even know Java [1][2] and haven't submitted any code patches (and barely any--*if* any--doc patches at that.) Per you and Joerg's new standards, to be a committer on the FOP team, just being helpful on the mailing lists suffices.[3] The Batik team, like Xalan, Struts, HTTPD, and other successful projects, however, still keeps programmatic committer standards and pretty high ones at that. (Take a look at the solid backgrounds of the Batik committers [4], for example.) To protect their user base and their excellent products, they don't gratuitously (and dangerously) hand out write access to people as tokens of appreciation. If you and Joerg want to insist on committers who haven't even learned CVS and Ant yet, then interfacing with other teams is going to be problematic, if only for the safety of their code. I wish you had both thought out the consequences beforehand (I certainly didn't appreciate being made into the "mean one" on this issue)--regardless, the Batik team should be aware of this issue. The current (lowered) committer standards on the FOP team definitely needs to be explained to the Batik team before we get write access to their project--something I'm still far from recommending. Jeremias, being perhaps the leading proponent of the new committer standards, is probably in the best position to explain this to Thomas--I still don't understand it myself. Glen [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=106640132114490&w=2 [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=107262232610618&w=2 [3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=107271927618049&w=2 [4] http://xml.apache.org/batik/whoAreWe.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
