This morning I filed issues 53011 and 53012, about general improvements to the Ant task used for compiling JSPs. These two issues are rather important to our team, and are making using the compiler rather difficult. In the interest of both improving Tomcat and meeting our needs as quickly as possible, I am interested in possibly contributing code changes to effect these improvements, and possible others.
I read the information at http://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html and related links, and understand that my first step is building Tomcat and my second is proposing patches to the other developers (presumably by attaching them to the issues I filed). If I'm missing anything so far, please let me know. What I'd really like is a little further guidance about this particular feature in Tomcat. Who is really familiar with it that I can ask questions of if I don't understand something I see? What do the developers on the list think about the ideas proposed in these two issues? I believe they make Tomcat better, but that's just because they meet our immediate needs. Do other contributors and committers agree with the proposals? I'd be happy to provide more background information about me on request, but I didn't want to introduce myself with a novel. :-) Nick Williams
