On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, > > First, you should open a ticket in our JIRA issue tracking system ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT) and attach a patch there. That > way, we can carry on discussion. > > Next, you should try to find an existing committer or contributor who can > champion your additions, ideally someone who knows something about the > language you're trying to add. > Can you give me the names of the haskell and ocaml contributors? Those two languages are the closest to Mercury.
> Once all that is done, we'll probably go through a few iterations on your > patch, and ultimately commit it if it works well enough to be part of the > core. Unit tests are strongly encouraged to convince us that it works. > Sounds good to me, it's been awhile since I've written C++. At the moment I'm still at the getting a simple RPC server working, so it'll be awhile until the first patch is ready. > Feel free to use this list as a resource to help answer your questions. > > -Bryan > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Peter Ross > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in adding the language Mercury >> <http://www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/> to the thrift system. >> >> I'm basing my code on the haskell code generator, as the languages are >> reasonably similar. >> >> Once I have the code in a reasonable state, what is the process for >> getting it reviewed and committed to the repository. >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> > -- Peter Ross - Mission Critical Australia AU: +61 424 651 834 BE: +32 485 482 559
