[Hibernate] Re: Becoming an official XDoclet module

[Joel Rosi-S. <Joe...@Et...>]

Good, I am pleased that you support the proposition. It would be fine by 
me whoever the committer was; my goal is to have a viable module and I 
am willing to support that which ever way is deemed to be most appropriate.

- joel

Ara Abrahamian wrote:

>Well, Gavin once requested commit access to xdoclet's cvs for the
>hibernate module. In that period of time we've been discussing an
>approach for handling new modules without the need to put them in
>xdoclet's cvs. Now I'm +1 on hibernate in xdoclet's core and opening cvs
>access for its maintainer. So if Gavin agrees too I can candidate you
>(or maybe Gavin himself, whomever you find more appropriate for this
>role).
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>Ara. 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Joel Rosi-Schwartz [mailto:Joe...@Et...]
>>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:15 PM
>>To: hib...@li...
>>Cc: ar...@ya...; Gav...@ex...
>>Subject: Becoming an official XDoclet module
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>>I know that this has come up before in the forum and dev list, but I
>>think it is worth re-evaluation. I just did an experiment of adding
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>>produced without any pain. So I am wondering if maintaining the
>>Hibernate module seperately is really worth the extra pain and effort
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>>As I understand it the main consideration is not having a maintainer
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>>that handling changes via patches is awkward. So what does it take to
>>get accepted as a module and as a commiter to the Xdoclet project? If
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>>had assurances that Gavin and Ara were both willing to give me a bit
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>>support as needed, I would be willing to take on being the maintainer.
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>>- joel
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