Simon, Thank you for the quick response. After reading your e-mail I realized that my understanding of the purpose for the Jakarta Commons may have been incorrect. I totally understand the need to avoid bloating the libraries, and to "vet" or justify new additions to the library.
With this in mind, I think it may be appropriate to find another home for my utility code. I will however contribute bug reports and patches for my work with the existing Jakarta Commons code if possible. Thanks again. The Sunburned Surveyor On 8/29/07, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:49 -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > I've been using Jakarta commons for a few months now. I've been > > programming in Java as "hobby" for a few years, so I'm not what you > > would call a professional. However, I have a good basic knowledge of > > Java. > > > > I would like to contribute to Jakarta Commons if possible. My main > > interests are in the Math, Lang, and Collection modules. I'm currently > > working on some classes that manipulate angles, directions, and > > bearings that might be appropriate for the Math package. I'm also > > working on a large point number format that provides an alternative to > > BigDecimal for exact mathematical calculations. I hope to use this > > large number format for some statistical calculations. > > > > I'm also working on a FILO collection as part of a data caching mechanism. > > > > At any rate, I know I need to get up to speed on the Jakarta Commons > > coding style and other requirements for contributing. I should also > > get in touch with the maintainer/maintainers for the Math module. > > > > I know how to work with SVN, so I shouldn't have any major problems > > downloading code from Jakarta Commons. > > > > I look forward to working with the Jakarta Commons community, if it is > > possible. > > It's great that you're interesting in contributing to open source. > > Hopefully some of the math team will get in contact as you're interested > in that. > > For more general info, you might like to read this: > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/GettingInvolved > > As mentioned there, offers to add features that "seem cool" without any > particular project *needing* those features is generally received with > caution. We don't want to bloat existing libs, ie add code that isn't > actively being used. So some of the ideas listed above might need some > justification before being accepted. > > Math might be an exception, as implementing known algorithms seems a > useful thing - though I should let the Math people speak for themselves. > > Regards, > > Simon > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
