[Geoserver-devel] Seeking approval as a community contributor

I am seeking approval for committing geoserver fixes or improvements. Based on the procedure outlined at http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/committing.html#comitting I have created a github account with user id wmstoval and have also filled out the corporate contributor agreement, signed by our vice president.

Please review the agreement I sent to info@anonymised.com and let me know if there’s anything out of order.

I’m in the process of learning the development tools leading up to creating a pull request for my proposed changes which will initially be a fix for https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-5239

I’ve forked the conical repository and created an eclipse workspace to develop my change. This will be a change to gt-jdbc-oracle-15-SNAPSHOT.jar, the OracleDialect class.

In my eclipse workspace I just have the JAR, so OracleDialect.java is not a writeable source file. In spite of that I’ve done the development by creating a src folder and putting my modified OracleDialect there so it comes first on the classpath. But of course that’s only good for some debugging.

I would like to checkin my changes and create a pull-request. But how would I get the SNAPSHOT sources into my workspace so I can make the proposed change where the OracleDialect source really lives?

Thank You – I look forward to contributing to this great product!

Walter Stovall

Byers Engineering Company

http://www.byers.com

6285 Barfield Road

Atlanta, GA. 30328 USA

(404) 843-1000

Excuse me – I was confused. I do want to contribute to GeoServer but GeoTools is actually where the bug I want to fix is. I’m working on building that, applying my change, submitting a pull request.

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From: Walter Stovall
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 9:16 AM
To: geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Seeking approval as a community contributor

I am seeking approval for committing geoserver fixes or improvements. Based on the procedure outlined at http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/committing.html#comitting I have created a github account with user id wmstoval and have also filled out the corporate contributor agreement, signed by our vice president.

Please review the agreement I sent to info@anonymised.com and let me know if there’s anything out of order.

I’m in the process of learning the development tools leading up to creating a pull request for my proposed changes which will initially be a fix for https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-5239

I’ve forked the conical repository and created an eclipse workspace to develop my change. This will be a change to gt-jdbc-oracle-15-SNAPSHOT.jar, the OracleDialect class.

In my eclipse workspace I just have the JAR, so OracleDialect.java is not a writeable source file. In spite of that I’ve done the development by creating a src folder and putting my modified OracleDialect there so it comes first on the classpath. But of course that’s only good for some debugging.

I would like to checkin my changes and create a pull-request. But how would I get the SNAPSHOT sources into my workspace so I can make the proposed change where the OracleDialect source really lives?

Thank You – I look forward to contributing to this great product!

Walter Stovall

Byers Engineering Company

http://www.byers.com

6285 Barfield Road

Atlanta, GA. 30328 USA

(404) 843-1000