Github user revans2 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/845#issuecomment-153511977
@ptgoetz I don't consider this criticism and I'm not really trying to
complain, I'm just trying to understand what requires an IP grant.
from http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html I find
> From time to time, an external codebase is brought into the ASF that is
not a separate incubating project but still represents a substantial
contribution that was not developed within the ASF's source control system and
on our public mailing lists.
and
> The intent is to simply help to ensure, and record, that due diligence
(Software Grant, CLA, Corp CLA, license and dependencies) has been paid to the
incoming code, so that it can be merged into an existing project/module.
Which seems a lot more vague than
> * Was the code developed in the open, using ASF infrastructure?
> * Was the Apache community aware of its existence from inception, or
early on, such that it could contribute to itâs development?
> * Is the commit history intact such that all contributors can be
identified?
I can also see how these map from one to the other but not totally. I am
mostly confused about what is "a substantial contribution" which I am not
disputing this is. I am also confused about how putting a large pull request
up differs from this? Even though the core of this was developed in a separate
repository anything and everything in this pull request is up for modification
if the community feels that we need to. The design document has been up for
over a week, and the JIRA itself has been open since June that no one touched
until now, but could have. And most of the code has been touched in preparing
it to work with Nimbus HA, specifically for this. Lastly I don't see a reason
to have the code contribution be attributed line by line, if we call out
exactly who helped contribute to the patch.
If you feel that we need an IP Grant for this I will make it happen, but
going forward we the PMC need to have a discussion and clarify these questions,
because to me leaving this up to a gut feeling is just going to put up too many
barriers and potential frustration for developers. Now I don't want line
counts or anything like that, but something a lot less vague than "substantial"
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