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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:28:40 +0100
From: Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@gmail.com>
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Well done to each of you.

Regards,
Tim

Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
> Please join the Apache Harmony PPMC in welcoming the projects 3 newest
> committers :
> 
>   Stepan Mishura, Mikhail Loenko and George Harley
> 
> These three individuals have shown sustained dedication to the project,
> an ability to work well with others, and share the common vision we have
> for Harmony. We all continue to expect great things from them.
> 
> Gentlemen, as a first step to test your almighty powers of committitude,
> please update the committers page on the website.  That should be a good
>  (and harmless) exercise to test if everything is working.
> 
> Things to do :
> 
> 1) test ssh-ing to the server people.apache.org.
> 2) Change your login password on the machine
> 3) Add a public key to .ssh so you can stop using the password
> 4) Set your SVN password  : just type 'svnpasswd'
> 
> At this point, you should be good to go.  Checkout the website from svn
> and update it.  See if you can figure out how.
> 
> Also, for your main harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk please be sure that
> you have checked out via 'https' and not 'http' or you can't check in.
> You can switch using "svn switch". (See the manual)
> 
> Finally, although you now have the ability to commit, please remember :
> 
> 1) continue being as transparent and communicative as possible.  You
> earned committer status in part because of your engagement with others.
>  While it was a  "have to" situation because you had to submit patches
> and defend them, but we believe it is a "want to".  Community is the key
> to any Apache project.
> 
> 2)We don't want anyone going off and doing lots of work locally, and
> then committing.  Committing is like voting in Chicago - do it early and
> often.  Of course, you don't want to break the build, but keep the
> "commit bombs" to an absolute minimum, and warn the community if you are
> going to do it - we may suggest it goes into a branch at first.  Use
> branches if you need to.
> 
> 3) Always remember that you can **never** commit code that comes from
> someone else, even a co-worker.  All code from someone else must be
> submitted by the copyright holder (either the author or author's
> employer, depending) as a JIRA, and then follow up with the required
> ACQs and BCC.
> 
> 
> Again, thanks for your hard work so far, and welcome.
> 
> The Apache Harmony PPMC
> 
> 

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Tim Ellison (t.p.ellison@gmail.com)
IBM Java technology centre, UK.