Like Farid, I too am willing to help process patches for review and
submission. Once a track record has been established, someone on the PMC
would likely raise a motion to designate you as a committer, as defined
at http://stdcxx.apache.org/#committers . This would allow you to make
changes directly to subversion without assistance. Do note that in order
to be designated as such, you will need to have a Contributor License
Agreement ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt ) on file with the
Apache foundation. If you are being paid to perform this work, the
company you work for will likely need to have a Corporate Contributor
License Agreement ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt )
on file.
If we are trying to revitalize this project, there are a few things I
personally would/would not like to see in the patches:
* I would not like to see major changes to the build infrastructure at
this time. One of the goals of this project has been portability, and
this includes the build infrastructure. My understanding is that gmake
is considered to be more portable than some of the alternatives (cmake,
ant).
* I would like to see tests added to verify any library changes. Ideally
the new tests will pass on most platforms, though we don't currently
have an automated test mechanism in place. If any existing tests are
incorrect, commentary for the change about why they are broken would be
appreciated.
* Changes destined for the 4.2.x branch should have forwards and
backwards binary compatibility.
* Changes destined for the 4.3.x branch should have backwards source
compatibility.
--Andrew Black
On 02/03/2012 03:04 PM, Farid Zaripov wrote:
On 03.02.2012 1:52, Stefan Teleman wrote:
2. Someone with stdcxx commit privileges should be part of this
reunification (for obvious reasons). It is very discouraging to submit
patches knowing full well and ahead of time that they will never make
it anywhere. Perhaps the process of submitting patches could be
somewhat less of a "process". Just my 0.02. --Stefan
Stefan, if you split the all your patches to a set of small finalized
changes and submit them through a set of corresponding issues in JIRA, I
promise I will process them all one by one.
At the moment I don't see any issues, reported by you. Sorry, but
process is a process.
Farid.