Re: matz/knu: Requesting committer privileges to add Win32 NTLM authentication to net/http

Thanks for your reply below - I will  refactor the names and get a patch
prepared in the near future.

On 2/21/07, Akinori MUSHA <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> It sounds fine to me and I have no objection to putting it into 1.8
> after getting tested and matured in trunk, as long as the concerned
> issues are resolved.
>
> I'd agree that the name really matters, especially when it comes to
> becoming a part of the standard libraries.  A project can be named
> anything one desires because the project is one's own, but the library
> namespace isn't.  I personally don't prefer the prefix "ruby" for a
> library/class/module name unless the features it provides are directly
> related to the language itself, because it's pretty obvious that
> everything in Ruby is for Ruby.
>
> For the committer privileges, if the area you are going to maintain is
> not very large and you think the code is pretty mature, you can just
> send us a patch via tracker as necessary.  Minero or someone else will
> always commit it for you.  If Minero starts to think that you are a
> noisy bugger who spams tracker so often with straight-forward and
> quality patches, you are forced to become a committer. :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
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