I have been experimenting with a GitHub based workflow for the whiteboard repos for our committers. Here is the workflow I would like to propose:
* Apache Flex creates an 'Organization' account GitHub * Each Apache Flex committer is encouraged to create an account on GitHub * The committer then posts their GitHub id on dev@flex.apache.org and asks to be added to the ApacheFlex@GitHub account * The Apache Flex PMC will add the committer's GitHub id to the ApacheFlex@GitHub account. * In the contributing.md file [1] at the root of each committer's github project, there will be information about Apache's contribution guidelines including a link to the ICLA [2] * Any public contributor is free to fork an ApacheFlex committer's github project. * The contributor makes a few modifications and is ready to send a 'Pull request' to the Apache Flex committer * Before the 'Pull Request' can be sent, GitHub will automatically point the contributor to take a look at the contribution guidelines first. * Theoretically the contributor reads the contribution guidelines, agrees to it implicitly and clicks the 'Send Pull Request' button. * The Apache Flex Committer now will have a chance to peruse the commits and decide whether or not to accept the pull request. There is another alternative I have been working on as well. There is a CLAHub [3] plugin for GitHub. The workflow for this is described in the same link [3]. I have been experimenting with this plugin but have found various issues with it. I am currently working with the plugin's creator, Jason Morrison and support@GitHub to fix these issues. They have been very helpful so far. I hope to be able to fix all the issues soon and send out a demo. Please let me know if the above mentioned steps are sufficient or if something like CLAHub plugin would be better. Thanks, Om [1] https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines [2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [3] http://www.clahub.com/
