Lucene encourages people to make a JIRA to go with their PR. However, I can
find you a legal JIRA that makes it quite clear that for small
contributions there is no problem here.


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Benson,
>
> I think we should support contributions from folks both as patches and via
> pull requests.  I am inclined to think we should ask infra to add the
> integration hook which will close out the PR.
>
> That said, as Billie noted there seems to be some concern over whether a PR
> from Github provides sufficient legal clarity.  Did Lucene get beyond that?
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Other communities are using a workflow in which a JIRA linked to a PR is
> > good enough (e.g. Lucene), and there's an integration where a commit
> > comment with a PR # closes the PR.
> >
> > So if you want that stuff, we should ask infra@ about it.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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