Hi folks,

If you are looking to get started helping to move CloudStack along
towards our initial Apache release, but are still unfamiliar, I have a
great project you can help with. Part of the ASF's legal guidelines
[1] require that we have a very specific notice in the header of each
source file, and remove any copyright notices from submitted code.
RAT[2] has a function that will automatically do this, and I seem to
recall seeing a perl script for this, but can no longer locate it. A
good rule of thumb for this is that any file that currently has a
copyright notice listing Citrix Systems, Cloud.com, or VMOps as the
copyright holder is a target for this. Please do carefully check - I
have found some files bearing a Citrix or Cloud.com copyright that
also have another copyright holder listed - and this is almost always
incorrect, for any case you find like that, please file a bug as it
will need deeper inspection.

I'd like for any interested folks to volunteer here on the list and
claim a directory in the source repo that they want to work on and
then submit patches back to the mailing list. I'd like to have this
done in a couple of weeks, with some frequent status updates. I know
this is boring and mind numbing, but it's necessary for us to move
forward.

I'll start by claiming the UI directory.

--David

[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/rat/apache-rat-core/index.html

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