Ok, so we're got confidence now on how to approach this, confirmation from the project's maintainers supporting it, and interest from a handful of people interested in maintaining and contributing to the project.
The proposed plan forward is… We will go through a round of collecting CLAs along with agreements to donate work to ASF from all gocql authors, over email and LinkedIn searches and messages. We will also open a github issue on the gocql project describing the steps involved and mentioning all the authors. A response on the GH issue from everyone agreeing to the donation is the best single place to collect the responses from everyone, but we'll accept and work with whatever/however we get them. These authors will also need to sign this ICLA and submit it to the ASF. After a four week grace period we will move ahead with the IP donation to ASF, and make a list of all work (files) that we don't have CLAs for. Such work may remain with headers honouring their past MIT license and authors. When the work is accepted and brought into the Cassandra Driver subproject we will be looking to add committers to the subproject. These may or may not be people who have expressed interest in further contributing to the codebase, but rather people we trust regardless when/if they come back to contribute. Does anyone call out the need for a new CEP for bringing the gocql into the Driver's subproject ? My suggestion is that this falls under CEP-8, even if it is not DataStax donating this particular codebase, the process is largely the same and it is the Drivers subproject receiving it. On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 12:31, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > We can open an issue with LEGAL to see what they say at least? >>> >> >> >> I will raise a LEGAL ticket. >> >> My question here is whether we have to go through the process of >> best-efforts to get approval to donate (transfer copyright), or whether we >> can honour the copyright on the prior work and move forward ( by >> referencing it in our NOTICE.txt, as per >> https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html ) >> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-674 >
