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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:35:18 -0800
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [jira] Commented: (DERBY-587) Providing JDBC 4.0 support for
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Does Derby or Apache  have a set of coding guidelines? Where would a new 
contributor find rules about copyright notices and @author tags? It 
would be helpful if we had a link to the rules in the 'Contribute Code 
or Documentation' section of the Community tab.

Thanks,
-Rick

Satheesh Bandaram (JIRA) wrote:

>    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-587?page=comments#action_12356249 ] 
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>Satheesh Bandaram commented on DERBY-587:
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>I noticed Narayanan doesn't have ICLA signed with Apache.  Any "reasonable" size contribution would require the contributor to have an ICLA signed and be on file. List of ICLAs can be found at: http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html. The process of starting an ICLA submission: http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas
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>I think it is wise to hold off on checking this in, pending ICLA submission. I was so close... :(
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>Several new JAVA files don't have the ASF copyright notices at the top ... Isn't this required for all new JAVA files?
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>I also noticed an @author tag in the patch. While I am not sure what guidelines Apache or Derby follows, it may be best to remove @author tags. Geronimo has a policy against this tag: http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/CodingStandards
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>One last minor one... The copyright notice should have 2005 for the file jdk16.java
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>>Providing JDBC 4.0 support for derby
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>>         Key: DERBY-587
>>         URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-587
>>     Project: Derby
>>        Type: New Feature
>>  Components: JDBC
>>    Versions: 10.2.0.0
>>    Reporter: V.Narayanan
>>    Assignee: V.Narayanan
>>    Priority: Minor
>>     Fix For: 10.2.0.0
>> Attachments: jdbc4.0.sxw, jdbc4.diff
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