On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:24 AM, David Jencks wrote:
Great work david!!!
I think some of these people are axis committers ... the ones with
opensource.lk email addresses. If they are, do we need another
CLA? Or did you already look and my idea that they are committers
on another project is wrong?
A CLA is ASF-wide, not project specific. So, it would definitely cover
the changes...
On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:00 PM, David Blevins wrote:
On Apr 21, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Jason Warner wrote:
This may be a dumb question, but what happens if a user submitted
content and then submitted a CLA sometime later on. Are CLA's
retroactive or does the content submitted before a CLA need to be
resubmitted?
Definitely not a dumb question. In the concrete case of someone
making contributions to project A then filing a CLA and later
becoming a committer to project A, I'd think the CLA would cover
all contributions. Similarly, if someone made some contributions
and we asked them to file a CLA and they did, I'd count that as
good enough. Likely some other scenarios which are less clear, but
those two cover the common cases.
And speaking of CLAs, here's a report of users, and their edits,
for whom I could not find a CLA:
http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/gmo-revisions-no-cla.log
I think the easiest thing is to just ask for CLAs from everyone on
this list (definitely some familiar faces in that list).
Afterwards we can deal with what's left which will be a process of
evaluating the contributions and making a judgment call on if they
fall under either the "minor patch" or the "major contribution"
category.
Getting CLA on file certainly seems to help reduce any concerns. Not
sure if a CLA applies retroactively to prior submissions.
--kevan
