I believe many projects practice this policy, although it's unwritten, and perhaps there are others who don't (and probably deserve some scrutiny to determine if it's helpful or harmful).
I'm proposing the following policy become explicit across the incubator; Where the project policy permits commit-then-review contributions to its Subversion repository, committers may commit code they personally authored, or with proper attribution, commit patches posted on the project's mailing list or posted to the project's bug tracking system (Jira/Bugzilla). No third-party code (beyond bugzilla and mailing list submissions) may be directly committed without first posing the submission to the mailing list. This goes for submissions by associates who are unaffiliated with the project, private correspondence to a committer, and third party open source code which is otherwise compatible with the Apache Software License. Where the project's policy is review-then-commit, there truly is no change to their current practice. All of the above cases are subject to review first on the mailing list. I believe the policy would directly address not only concerns w.r.t. the Heraldry project, but several prior issues and those that will still pop up over the horizon. Votes? +1 here. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
