Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Patrick Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > For the first two items, my understanding is that only committers > will be able to author that.
Right, but anyone is of course free to submit patches! For legal reasons (everything officially released by the ASF should be traceable back to a CLA or an equivalent license agreement) such contributions need to be reviewed and accepted by a committer. > The wiki is a little looser, but I don't completely understand the rules yet. Basically anyone (who isn't banned for bad behavior like spamming) can edit a wiki. The distinction here is that the wiki space is an open collaboration space just like these mailing lists, not targeted or released for redistribution by downstream users. > We are still working out the process for how to accept commits from folks; > you would need to an have an ICLA on file An ICLA is only really needed for substantial contributions (like an entire new component) and for project committers. It's good if a contributor submits an ICLA, but not strictly required as the licensing status of smaller contributions is already covered by section 5 of ALv2 [1]. [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 BR, Jukka Zitting
