Hey gang, I know I've talked about this with a bunch of people (specifically also at the last apachecon), but I couldn't find it stated anywhere in a public e-mail, so I figured I'd waste a bit of everyone's time and write an email. I hope its all obvious stuff anyway.
Harmony has received and processed *many* *big* corporate contributions, more than any other apache project before us. This is in large part because harmony is such a unique project, implementing something big for which there have been many implementations for over 10 years. This is really cool -- for one these contributions have allowed us to grow at a tremendous rate and reach many milestones *really quickly*. There is, however, therefore a bit of a contrast with "normal apache process". I thought I'd highlight this as a specific goal that we *need* to reach at some point (and I apologize for the bad wording): contributions should at some point start consisting of (mostly/only) small patches developed right here within the project (on this mailing list), with each contributor participating actively, in public (on this mailing list, or, perhaps, through our issue tracker). To contast -- there's quite a few open source projects out there which have one or a few "maintainers", with most other parties not being "committers", but rather those developers are supposed to be submitting patches or contributions, and they get integrated only after approval. Even very frequent contributors go the same route. I think this is roughly how the linux kernel is maintained, for example, and they regularly accept "big" pieces of new stuff that came from "somewhere" as a mater of course. That's fine, but its Not "our way" :) My understanding is that harmony now has sizeable pieces of code for most of the major pieces (except for all the various "tools"), so the natural expectancy AIUI is that the rate of "big contributions" is going to slow down just because we won't need them as much anymore. I hope so, and I think its happening already. Its a Good Thing. Yep, it feels like I've succeeded at writing down something obvious and redundant. Good. cheers, LSD --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
