[ptp-dev] Interest in participating in PTP development

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
I am part of a team in IBM that is planning to contribute code to the PTP 
project, initially implementing support for running parallel applications 
using IBM's Parallel Environment and Load Leveler products. Some of you 
may have met my manager, Ted Hoover at Supercomping 2006 a couple weeks 
ago.

Right now I'm am working on getting formal approval to contribute code to 
the PTP project and have three questions that I need some answers for to 
get the approval process within IBM started, since I'm not familiar with 
specifics of how Eclipse projects operate.

1) What is the leadership model for the project? Who makes decisions 
regarding things like project direction, acceptability of contributions, 
etc, and how are those decisions made?

2) What is the testing model for the PTP project? Does the whole 
development team participate in testing? Do you expect the user community 
to participate in testing? At what points in the development cycle where 
testing takes place or is testing done incrementally as the code is 
developed?

3) Do you have a process for assigning copyrights for contributions to the 
PTP project that I would have to follow? Is there a standardized form that 
needs to be completed?

If you can answer these questions, or provide Eclipse website URLs that I 
can reach to get answers to these questions, then I can get my 
participation approval process started.

Thanks for your help.
Dave