2014-12-15 4:02 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > > Nice feedback all around. Here is a version that includes some of these > thoughts: > -- > > Dear fellow committers, > > The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce that write access to the > Apache Commons Subversion and Git repositories has been granted to all ASF > committers. > > Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java > components. As such, the components maintained by the Apache Commons > project > may be of interest to a variety of other Apache projects. > > The Apache Commons community would like to invite you to share and maintain > useful code. > > While Apache Commons is a Commit-Then-Review community, we would consider > it polite and helpful for contributors to announce their intentions and > plans on the dev mailing list before committing code. > > > Have fun, > > The Apache Commons Community. > -- > Gary >
Very nice! I'll send the announcement tonight. Benedikt > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:57:02 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: > > > >> On 12/14/14 12:49 PM, Gilles wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:28:37 +0100, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> here is my draft for the announcement to committers@ > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Benedikt > >>>> > >>>> ------ > >>>> > >>>> Dear fellow committers, > >>>> > >>>> the Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce that write access > >>>> to the > >>>> Apache Commons SVN and git repositories has been granted to all ASF > >>>> committers. > >>>> > >>>> Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of > >>>> reusable Java > >>>> components. As such the components maintained by the Apache > >>>> Commons project > >>>> may be of interest for a variety of other Apache projects. > >>>> > >>>> The Apache Commons community would like to invite you to share > >>>> useful code > >>>> which may be useful for other projects as well. > >>>> Please let us know before you start working on the code, by > >>>> writing a short > >>>> mail to the dev mailing list [1]. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I'd be more careful (better safe than sorry) and add something like: > >>> > >>> [...] before committing code, consensus about the modifications > >>> should be > >>> reached on the dev ML. > >>> > >> > >> We are CTR so that is not necessary. We might just want to refer to > >> and update [1]. > >> > > > > IMHO, it is more efficient to discuss first (with the assumption that > > no objection amounts to green light). > > > > The upshot there is that before starting to commit > >> to a component, it is polite to announce intention to start working > >> on it and let people know what you have in mind. > >> > > > > In the same vein, it is more polite to ask first whether there is an > > objection). > > It is also nicer, for all parties, to not have to veto a commit. > > > > > > Gilles > > > > > > > > Phil > >> > >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CommonsEtiquette > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Gilles > >>> > >>> > >>>> Benedikt Ritter, > >>>> on behalf of the Apache Commons community > >>>> > >>>> [1] http://commons.apache.org/mail-lists.html > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
