Thank you all for being so open to my participation in this process. It's ok if I'm not a committer -- after my initial message on this thread, my patches magically started getting committed. That's good enough for me. ;)
Let me say it is truly an honor and a privilege for me to be working on this project with you. Using Google, I did a little research to get to know some of you (I hope you don't mind), and was greatly impressed. Although I did a small solo Sourceforge project, this is my first experience with an open source collaboration, and I'm really enjoying it. It's also great that we're working together from so many parts of the world: Finland, Quebec, Switzerland, and California, to name a few, if I'm not mistaken? (I am in the Washington, DC, USA area.) I have have studied some languages, and have gotten to know some software developers and other tech people in my international travels over the last few years. So this is pretty exciting for me. Back to business, I believe that all my local code changes are now represented in patches submitted to Jira. The one in issue #17 was pretty substantial, touching four files, some of which had massive changes. I'm sorry to burden you with so many changes so quickly -- due to my project's need, I have the luxury of working on Tika intensively for now. Due to my newness in this environment, I may commit a faux pas -- if so, please let me know (nicely ;). Regards, Keith Bennett Jukka Zitting wrote: > > Hi, > > On 9/12/07, kbennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My situation is that I need to get this code working as soon as possible. >> I >> have already successfully gotten PDF files to parse by making changes >> that >> have not yet been committed (or even proposed). > > Please do propose the changes! > >> I'd like to ask if you would be willing to grant me committer rights, at >> least temporarily. There's been no activity for a while, so even if I >> screwed up (which I doubt I would), you could revert to the earlier >> version >> and it would not be a serious problem. I expect that I could make most >> or >> all of the changes I would need to make the library functional by the end >> of >> this week, and maybe even sooner. > > This is not really how we work. It would be better if you first > summarized the changes you'd like so we could discuss and better > understand the path you are taking. If it looks good, we'd most > certainly be happy to incorporate any patches you send. > > And if you keep up the current level of activity, I don't think it > will take too long for us to grant you committer status. But please > note that committership in an Apache project is not just about write > access to the code, it's also about the ability to communicate and > work together. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Request-Committer-Status-or-Other-Direction-tf4431566.html#a12664990 Sent from the Apache Tika - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
