On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 2:39 PM >> To: <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> >> Cc: David Nalley; Kelven Yang; Alena Prokharchyk >> Subject: Re: Review Request: Merge Kelven's VPC code for Vmware into >> asf vpc branch >> >> On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Vijayendra Bhamidipati >> <vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi David, >> > >> > This is Kelven's code that he checked in to the 3.0.x branch - I'm >> only merging it to the asf branch. After the recent code re-org, >> cherry-picking the patches wouldn't work, so I had to merge the code >> for each file. >> >> When you say ASF branch, are we talking about code being developed >> privately inside of Citrix, and then sent to review board for >> inclusion into the master branch within the ASF repo? > > Yes, Citrix has a number of feature branches that we've been holding because > we didn't know what we were doing with them while the 4.0 legal and policy > issues were sorted out. > > Now that we've got a release plan for 4.0, we're getting all that code merged > and published. > > Cheers, > > Ewan. >
The problem with that is that entire features that are not developed within the project have a different process for inclusion. Particularly when they are features that multiple people have collaborated on externally. --David
