On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Rodion Efremov < rodion.efre...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> The reason I contact you is that I wanted to make sure that I understand > the process. (Bare with me, as this is the very first time I contact ANY > open-source community.) Now, is the following procedure acceptable? > > 1. Create an issue I in JIRA with type 'New feature' > 2. Clean my working dir with 'mvn clean' to get rid of everything > irrelevant > 3. Create the patch with 'svn diff > my.patch' > 4. Attach my.patch to I > 5. Wait for any response R from the community > 6. If R is of type 'something is unfunky' > 7. Improve local repo > 8. Go to step 2 > 9. Celebrate > Yes. This is a fine procedure to follow. You might be able to economize some steps regarding the patch creation, but the flavor is correct. Also, the polarity of the of 6 might be reversed. I am sure you have it right in your head.
