Welcome Brett!
As you can tell we get too many requests from people who aren't actually
interested in joining up and helping out. When I first read your message I
actually suspected you might be up for contributing, but I can see how it
was ambiguous. Would have been good to mention the pull request you made,
since it looks like a couple core devs were excited about it. I'm glad
you're up for the gift economy that is open source.
I think our unofficial rule is (or at least was, it's been way too long
since I've committed to GeoTools) to have at least two or three solid,
reasonably sized patches before commit access. I see your PR at
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/208, would be good to link to the
patches you've done in the past.
But now that everyone knows you're interested in becoming a committer and
helping out I'd guess someone will be inclined to review your PR much
sooner. So I'd say just poke people on your PR's, with offers to help out
on issues they wish were done. And when you make new PR's just poke the
list with what it's about.
Sounds like you have great experience for GeoTools though, so will be
really great to have you aboard. I'm also curious about what areas of
GeoTools you're interested in. Is it just the parts you have experience in?
Or are there newer topics you're interested in diving in to? There are
definitely some key areas of GeoTools where we only have one or two expert,
so would be great if you're interested in some of those.
Chris
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Brett Walker
<brett.wal...@geometryit.com>wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>
> I take this as an invitation to request commit access. May I have commit
> access please?
>
> A bit about myself.
>
> My name is Brett Walker from Hobart, Tasmania. I work for Geometry (
> http://www.geometryit.com/) that has an expertise in spatial
> applications, for nearly 10 years. I have be a using Java, much longer,
> almost twenty years. And I have experience with other languages such as
> assembly, C/C++ & .NET.
>
> Geometry developed a product called Exposure that is very similar to
> GeoServer. Our reliance on Exposure for spatial solution has diminished as
> Geometry has turned towards GeoServer and Geotools for providing solutions.
> I have contributed small patches to GeoTools in the past.
>
> I have had exposure to a number of Web Service Technologies and various
> Database technologies, particular Oracle and PostgreSQL.
>
> I would be helping GeoTools outside of company time and not constrained by
> copyright/licence agreements with Geometry. I have no agenda driven by
> company needs or other concerns.
>
> This is an offer of assistance in the spirit of the Open Source community.
> I want to help. I would like to be come just a committer and, not at the
> moment, have additional responsibilities such as a module maintainer.
>
> GeoTools is a large body of work. I have lots to learn but am very willing.
>
> While this is brief, I am open to further queries.
>
> Please consider my request for commit access,
> Brett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 8:09 AM
> To: Brett Walker
> Cc: Geotools-Devel list
> Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Pull Request Policy
>
> Same as a patch in Jira - should have a test case, subject to volunteer
> time, etc...
>
> Pull request coming in via our change control procedure are planned during
> our bi-weekly meeting, and in the case of GeoSolutions API change the
> subject of scheduling. In this case geotools is entering lockdown shortly,
> so as a volunteer I want to see any API changed done *now* so it does not
> wait 6 months.
>
> We have a small number of active participants, if your organization needs
> more timely service consider taking part in the project (as a module
> maintainer or obtaining commit access). Some groups that have restrictions
> on programming in public go the commercial support option.
>
> We're there any pull requests in particular you were concerned with?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 26/06/2013, at 7:39 AM, Brett Walker <brett.wal...@geometryit.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the policy/procedure/expectation for pull requests that have
> been submitted for more than a couple of weeks?
> >
> > There are a number of pull requests that have been sitting 'dormant' for
> a while. Do they sit forever open with no feedback, or should they be
> closed, with comment, if not found suitable.
> >
> > It seems that pull requests from developers with commit access have
> preference with daylight second.
> >
> > Ignoring worthwhile patches could appear to give the cold shoulder to
> the wider community.
> >
> > Your thoughts please,
> > Brett
> >
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