Er. Updated the Board - but Yeah, Please welcome Laimis as our newest committer as of Jan 5th I believe :) ~P
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:43:03 +0200 > Subject: Re: Unecessary Paperwork > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Thanks Rob. Not a lawyer, thankfully, but always good to have a > knowledgeable person around. > > We have actually voted Laimis in as a committer - being crazy busy myself > so left Prescott the honor of announcing that :) > > -- > > Itamar Syn-Hershko > http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> > Freelance Developer & Consultant > Lucene.NET committer and PMC member > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Itamar > > > > I notice you have been asking everyone to sign an ICLA before you'll > > accept any pull requests which is actually unnecessary. ICLAs are only > > required for ASF committers (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) - > > > > "A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given > > commit rights to an ASF project." > > > > The Apache License has a clause that explicitly covers contributions > > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#contributions) so anything > > submitted through the formal channels to the project is a valid > > contribution unless the contributor explicitly states otherwise. Of > > course a committer still has to merge and push the changes and the buck > > stops with the committer in terms of ensuring the IP of the contribution > > is clean. > > > > Of course ICLAs are still desirable particularly when people are making > > larger contributions but they should not block you from reviewing and > > accepting pull requests while you wait for one to be submitted > > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas): > > > > "The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to > > the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or > > email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement > > <http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt>" > > > > The key word being "desires", unless someone has commit rights to the > > project they don't require an ICLA since the Apache License already covers > > their contributions. > > > > Btw if the PMC isn't already you should be thinking about offering some of > > these folks who have been contributing for a while now committer rights. > > Note that giving people committer rights does not prevent you from keeping > > the projects existing pull request, review then commit workflow. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > > >
