Charlie, There is no way to give code back to Harmony without filling ACQ. This form guarantees that you do not give Sun's private IP to Apache Harmony which is a "clean room" implementation.
Thanks. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:52 PM, charlie hunt <charlie.h...@sun.com> wrote: > Ok ... I'm back. > > Tim: Some questions below. Sorry to be overly cautious here. But, I want > direction from you on moving forward with this. > > For others who have asked other questions .... I will get to those questions > unrelated to getting these modifications to Harmony once we get that task > out of the way. Please bear with me ... first things first. :-) > > If possible I would like to get this transaction completed today since I am > planning to be on holidays / vacation Thursday & Friday. > > Questions for Tim: > > Just to be clear on the TreeMap artifact. The modifications are > enhancements which made to a TreeMap 5 from the Harmony repository where we > added / implemented the Java 6 APIs to make it Java 6 compliant. Although I > was the author of the changes / enhancements, I do not own this rights to > the code that was added, Sun owns it and Sun wishes to give these > changes/enhancements to Harmony. > > 1.) I looked over the "detailed contribution policy". At first glance it > looks a little daunting. ;-) It seems a little heavyweight for what we are > trying to accomplish which is merely giving Harmony the modifications to > java.util.TreeMap. Do we need to do: > a.) Authorized Contributor Questionnaire: This looks to be applicable if > one is wanting to be a (long term) committer to the project. That is not my > intention. I merely would like to give Harmony the modifications made to > your TreeMap 5. Do you really need this Authorized Contributor > Questionnaire? Would there be some kind of "blanket" agreement between Sun > & Apache which would make this transaction much easier? Sun makes > contributions and has contributors on many different Apache projects. > (Fwiw, I am not trying to delay or slow the transaction. I am trying to > figure out the easiest and quickest way to make this transaction occur.) > b.) I am certainly not an expert at this topic. But, after reading the > "Contribution Policy", it looks to me as if this contribution falls under > the "Bulk Contribution"? Would you agree? > > Assuming you agree this contribution falls under the "Bulk Contribution", > what is the typical artifacts put in JIRA and is this something we can do > ahead of satisfying the "Software Grant or CCLA" which might already exist > for Sun? If this falls under a "Bulk Contribution" do you need the > "Authorized Contributor Questionnaire" from me? > > Sorry to be full of questions ... this is something that is totally new and > foreign to me. :-( > > thanks, > > charlie hunt ... > > charlie hunt wrote: >> >> Tim, >> >> Since you're essentially the person who's the face of Harmony these days, >> I would like to ask you to help me (a novice) with this process. >> >> Hope you don't mind some silly / stupid questions. :-/ I'm an engineer. >> Not an open source license and processes expert. In other words, I do not >> want to unknowingly do something that is harmful to either party involved. >> This also why I haven't put the code in front of you at this point, i.e. I >> want to know exactly what's needed for artifacts before moving too quickly >> and putting the code in front of you. Open source projects tend to be >> pretty sensitive about how they receive contributions. I would like to >> honor and follow Harmony's wishes wrt this TreeMap you will be receiving. >> Hope you understand my concerns. >> >> I will back shortly with a few questions. I need to get my son off to >> school. >> >> Be back shortly. >> >> thanks, >> >> charlie ... >> >> Tim Ellison wrote: >>> >>> Yep, that is the contibution policy. >>> >>> If there are any questions about it just ask. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tim >>> >>> On Apr 8, 2009 9:35 AM, "Egor Pasko" <egor.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On the 0x58D day of Apache Harmony Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Charlie, > > >>> Typical contribution to an... >>> here is the detailed contribution policy: >>> http://harmony.apache.org/contribution_policy.html >>> >>> My guess is that your contribution falls into the "Bulk Contributions" >>> category. Tim knows this subject a lot better. Let's wait for him to >>> speak up. >>> >>> -- >>> Egor Pasko >>> >>> >> > > -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://people.apache.org/~aaf/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
