Ed, I understand your frustration and it's perfectly justified. I should tell you that the team has worked in overdrive non-stop for the last few months for ApacheCon. Things should pick up in a bit.
On the other hand, sending a few emails, like this, to remind people to look at your tests and patches is normal for this process. We do appreciate your work. I will put the tests in today. Regards, Alan > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Letifov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question to commiters: Applying patches > > Hello, > > I am sorry to raise this topic and hopefully it will not produce any > lengthly discussions. > > I don't have a commiter status on this project but I try to contribute > to it as much as possible. I'd love to do some "real" work, but every > time I have this intention and go in search for what to do I see people > already doing something on almost every API required for Geronimo, and > these people are already way ahead of me in their respective areas. I > follow every thread on the list, but there is a feeling of "missed > train" :( I guess I am not the only one who feels this way. > > Still, I did find a nice niche for me - "vanilla" tests. Maybe not so > attractive as writing an implementation for some JSR, but sometimes > almost as much challenging. As I understand there is still a goal to > reach a close to 100% test coverage, so I am doing my best to help > Geronimo reach this goal. BTW, I think this kind of activity would be a > nice entry point for all these people who were willing to contribute > but literally stopped after writing the "hello, my name is.... I would > like to contribute...." letter . > > Now, to the real point. At the early stages of the project it was > extremely motivating to see the patches you submit being picked up by > one of the commiters and applied virtually in a matter of hours. I do > understand that today it might not be the case, with people literally > being too busy. > > My question is: is there any way to speed this process up? Is there a > dedicated commiter who would be willing to process such incoming > patches (accept, review, react) basically acting as a gateway to people > who might not be extremely experienced yet in such kind of activity? > Should someone assume this role? I know I would be willing to do it, > but as I said I don't have a commiter status yet, and I guess the > amount of my current involvement does not give me enough "weight" to > try to get it. > > Ed Letifov.
