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List:       tomcat-dev
Subject:    Re: contrib directory
From:       Leslie Kishalmi <lkishalmi_dev () freemail ! hu>
Date:       2004-10-29 21:29:21
Message-ID: 4182B631.9020506 () freemail ! hu
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Dear all,

  I'm willing to spend some of my limited free time to collect, organize 
and maintain these contributed code.
However, it is very unlikely that I would be ever a committer on this 
project with my OS/2 launchers.
So, as Yoav said, we could find an other committer. Or we could create 
an other project something like
tomcat-contrib where we maintain our code.

Best regards,
Leslie Kishalmi

Shapira, Yoav wrote:

> Hi,
> Yeah, it's gone for now.  The reason is that the maintenance aspect is
> too hard for the long term.  While I don't doubt the quality of you (or
> anyone else's) work, nothing is perfect.  It is inevitable that the
> scripts will need work.  Even if you stay on top of it and keep
> submitting patches, someone will have to keep checking for them and
> applying them.  
> 
> I'm not interested in doing that work, and other committers apparently
> aren't interested enough to even comment on what an appropriate place in
> CVS might be for these contributions. So I took them out for now.
> 
> That's not to say they're gone forever.  I can see a couple of possible
> solutions, and that's why I'm doing this thread on tomcat-dev as opposed
> to just replying to you personally.
> 
> One approach is what I'm doing now: contributed stuff is owned by
> authors (like you) who post it wherever they want (hp.com, personal web
> sites, whatever), and we link to it from our FAQ and/or wiki pages.
> This approach solves the long-term maintenance concerns.
> 
> If this was a one-time effort, I would have done it and we'd be all set
> by now.  But it's not, and I just don't have the bandwidth to work it ;(
> Another approach is for someone else with commit privileges to say
> they're interested and do what they think is appropriate.  That can
> happen at any time, I wouldn't stand in their way obviously, as I'm not
> principally objecting to these contributions.  I just don't have the
> bandwidth to deal with them at this point.
> 
> So this issue is not dead.  It's just not going to be in 5.0.30/5.5.4.
> We might also want to raise it on tomcat-user to see if people have
> other creative approaches to solving this.
> 
> 
> 
> > Are you really going to take the contrib directory out?  I was just
> > about to make a contribution to you via PayPal as a thank you...
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thank you ;)
> 
> Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com
> 
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