Hi Keith:

> 
> This is pretty urgent for me -- I have a software deadline tonight and I'd
> like to use a version of Tika that is checked into subversion.  If it's ok
> with you I'd like to commit the TIKA-81 patch this afternoon, and we can
> devise a longer term solution later.
> 

For a small piece of agreed upon functionality this is fine, but I just want
to clarify that commits/patches/etc. should not necessarily be driven by the
deadlines of a single developer. Again, in this case it's fine: this was a
small piece of code that was universally agreed upon and added
functionality: rather than reorganized, or removed it.

In the future though, I think it should be discouraged to allow such
timelines to be a driver for committing patches. In this case, you waited 7
minutes (as far as I can tell) between sending your last email and
committing the patch. Seeing as though we all live in different
locations/timezones, etc., this wasn't even enough time for (m)any folks to
reply. 

I just wanted to send this as a heads up to you as far as my preference. The
other developers may have their own, which they are entitled to.

Cheers,
  Chris

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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
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Cognizant Development Engineer
Early Detection Research Network Project

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