I do see separate concerns here, so let me describe how we’re addressing them in other projects where I’m involved. It doesn’t mean that Kafka need to follow them, just sharing my experience.
1) Submitting a patch to JIRA No paper work required, all legalities are resolved implicitly by the fact that contributor submitted patch to JIRA. There is small trouble with the fact that new contributor can’t assign the item to himself - this is the way JIRA is configured and you need to talk with Infra about changing that. I’ve tried to change that at some point in the past for my projects and I’ve failed. Feel free to ask again though :-) 2) Editing wiki We’re giving edit privileges to anyone who asks for it. So far it worked very well for us. 3) Promoting contributor to committer Do require ICLA to be signed and faxed to ASF. Jarcec On Jul 18, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>
