I think having people fax in permission slips to edit the wiki or get bugs assigned to them is a bit hostile to potential contributors. Is this a legal Apache restriction that we have to abide by or just the way our permissions defaulted? Can we change this? Would people be opposed to changing it?
-Jay On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure if an ICLA is required for contributing patches. Requiring > that may make it harder for people who want to contribute. > > Currently, only Kafka PMC members can change the contributors list. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > >> Shouldn't we make sure that the people in the contributor group have signed >> and sent in their ICLA http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt much like >> we >> do for confluence? This helps to control also that all contributors have >> signed an ICLA too. >> >> /******************************************* >> Joe Stein >> Founder, Principal Consultant >> Big Data Open Source Security LLC >> http://www.stealth.ly >> Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> >> ********************************************/ >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <jar...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > You have to add those people as a contributors in JIRA project >> > administration. Click on “roles” in the KAFKA project administration and >> > find field “contributors”. >> > >> > Jarcec >> > >> > On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > I can't seem to assign JIRAs to anyone but a few committer people. >> > > Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it? Is this happening >> > > to anyone else? >> > > >> > > -Jay >> > >> > >>
