No, an ICLA is not necessary for contributions submitted through ASF infrastructure. See the definition of Contribution and the section on Submission of Contributions in the Apache License v. 2.0 ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
If we want to be able to accept GitHub pull requests, the process is not as clear. The first couple of paragraphs under "Reviewing contributor changes" on http://accumulo.apache.org/git.html are worth reading. Also we would need to make sure pull requests trigger an email to the dev list -- not sure if that is set up by default, or if we have to request it. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Mentors, > > For NIFI-154 we received a patch via Jira. I read that this is inherently > considered a submission that is useable but that was on the webpage of > another apache project. Is this correct? Do we need to request ICLAs > before we can use these things? > > Just want to make sure the process of accepting patches is understood. > > Thanks > Joe >
