+1. We have this attitude over at Lucene and I think it works well. We also have HowToContribute pages for both Lucene and Solr and regularly point people to it. We also encourage contribution via "Perhaps you can open a JIRA issue and contribute your patch" type of suggestions on the ML.
We give credit to all contributors and always thank them. Lucene has been around for about 10 years now. It's a very healthy and active project. It now has lots and lots of contributors, but it took some time to get there. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:57:09 AM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use > > apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be > > useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code > > especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some proof- > > of-concept code than from scratch. > > +1 - let's please not forget that NCSA httpd was exactly that, a code > dump (well, fork/import) of an abandoned work :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
