[equinox-dev] reminder to track contributed patches

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are in the fantastic position of
getting many patches contributed from the greater community.  Keep
it up everyone!  

With this interest and participation
comes an increasing need to track the contributions that are actually getting
committed into the main code.  This not a matter of who works for
who but rather a requirement that we properly track and attribute the origin
of the code we are shipping.   We can either do it as we go or spend
time at the end of each release cycle searching bugs and trying to remember
who did what when.  This was discussed some time ago and we adopted
the convention of marking bug reports when their patches were committed.
 In particular, the Equinox coding guidelines (see http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/coding.php)
read as follows:

    All committed contributions
from non-committers must be tracked. The easiest way is to put "[contributed
patch applied]" 
    in a comment in the bug
report that contains the patch/contribution when the code is committed.


Please remember to do this as you go.
 It will greatly simplify the process we inevitably must complete.
 An ounce of medicine... and all that.

Jeff

p.s., if you can think of any patches
that you have committed recently, or, for the community, if your patch
was committed to the main code base, please check to ensure that the related
bug is annotated as outlined above.