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 > > > > > > > > > >
