Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 34410 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2010 03:06:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2010 03:06:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 39869 invoked by uid 500); 5 Oct 2010 03:06:53 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 39790 invoked by uid 500); 5 Oct 2010 03:06:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libcloud-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list libcloud@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 39782 invoked by uid 99); 5 Oct 2010 03:06:52 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:06:52 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of paul@querna.org designates 74.125.82.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.82.175] (HELO mail-wy0-f175.google.com) (74.125.82.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:06:45 +0000 Received: by wyb35 with SMTP id 35so5766931wyb.6 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:06:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.185.72 with SMTP id t50mr8512986wem.77.1286247615319; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.7.9 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:00:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:00:15 -0700 Message-ID: From: Paul Querna To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [libcloud] Contribution protocol question On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Eric Woods wrote: >> Hi Grig, >> >> Glad to hear you're interested in contributing. =C2=A0Yes, this communit= y is very open to outside contributors. =C2=A0The right way to contribute, = as you said, is to open a ticket on JIRA and upload relevant patches. =C2= =A0A committer will apply, review, and commit your patch. =C2=A0With enough= contributions you can eventually become a committer. >> >> Returning the tuple as you described is a viable option. =C2=A0I can als= o see returning a dictionary mapping the values (my preference). =C2=A0Whil= e there are multiple solutions, I think it comes down to preference. =C2=A0= Paul or Jerry or some of the main python contributors would be better suite= d to comment as I mostly work on the Java version. >> >> Eric W. >> > > Thanks for the quick reply, Eric. I'll go ahead and open a JIRA issue > then and attach a patch. I like the dictionary variant better myself, > so I'll do that. Thanks, merged in r1004499: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=3Drevision&revision=3D1004499