In 2014 I started to research if we could offer a Google Summer of Code project aimed at improving Django's process for collecting and organizing CLAs. I didn't complete that proposal when I found some existing solutions, in particular https://cla.puppetlabs.com/ which Puppet labs said they were planning to open source. Following up on that now, I couldn't find if they ever did open source it and the contacts I found for the project (Dawn and Jeff) no longer seem to work at the company.
I wonder if anyone has a recommendation for a third-party solution to solve this? Our requirements are roughly outlined below. Overview -------- The Django software foundation asks all past and future contributors to sign a contributor license agreement [1]. Every contributor of non-trivial amounts of code (more than just a line or two) to Django is required to sign such a document. If somebody is unable to sign the document, their contribution (whether it be code, or documentation, or string translations) will be removed from Django. The CLA ensures that the Django Software Foundation (DSF) has clear license to all its contributions, which in turns lets us guarantee to users that we have no "stray" intellectual property or differently-licensed material. The DSF current process for collecting CLAs involves downloading a PDF and submitting it by mail, fax, or email. This process makes it difficult to audit our commit history by mapping commits to CLAs. Requirements ------------ Contributors must be able to do an online acceptance of terms and conditions. We present our license terms, and the user puts in name, email address, contact details etc. We validate that the email is valid (by having them verify the email address), and we tie it to their Trac and/or GitHub handle. This allows us to have tracing for every commit. We also have a historical archive of physical documents, which we can use to populate the database (obviously not with verified email addresses, but it works for legal purposes). We've also got corporate CLAs which need to be signed by a corporate representative, and can cover a bunch of employees (each employee's contributions covered from a specific date). We should add a pull request check that indicates whether or not a contributor has signed the CLA. [1] https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/cla/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/bbfa7ec9-fd82-4014-adec-519ec3ea8e51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
