Without getting into the merits of his patch, it's a little bit
ridiculous to expect to gain committer status immediately and with no
effort on the project. If he can't get the patch through, then he still
has the option to fork the war plugin. Catch-22 alleviated.

-john

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:16, Craig S.Cottingham wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2004, at 17:10, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:43, Brill Pappin wrote:
> >> How do I go about requesting commit status for this project?
> >
> > It is bad etiquette to request committer status in OSS projects and
> > generally looked dimly upon. The normal course of action is you
> > contribute for a period of time and one of the existing committers will
> > nominate you for commit status.
> 
> Sounds like a catch-22. IIRC, Brill has been told that even if he 
> produces a patch to do what he wants, it won't be applied.
> 
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