I just posted the question to legal-discuss. Let's see what they say. D.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > I personally would just ask the secretary what he thinks - mail > secret...@. > > He's responsible for managing this stuff, and it might be easy for him > to automate sending mails. Dunno. > > Upayavira > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:56 +0200, Richard Hirsch wrote: > > I like the idea of using JIRA to track the iCLA status. It is already > > possible to submit attachments with Jira items, so that would deal with > > submissions by email. For mailed and faxed submissions, I could imagine > > volunteers scanning these items, adding them to Jira and then mailing the > > submitter the link to Jira item. > > > > I'll move the discussion to legal-discuss and see what happens. > > > > D. > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin < > > robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Richard Hirsch < > hirsch.d...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > The current CLA submission process is described here: > > > > http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#cla-registration > > > > > > > > I'd like to make a suggestion that emails be sent to people to > submitting > > > > iCLAs so that they have idea of the status of their submission. I'd > > > suggest > > > > sending emails when an iCLA has been received, when it has been > > > > acknowledged and finally when it has been registered. > > > > > > > > This would improve the process and avoid emails in the podling > mailing > > > lists > > > > asking about the status of individual iCLA submissions. > > > > > > > > I've just submitted an iCLA via email and I have no way to check its > > > status > > > > besides looking at the Committers' page ( > > > > http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html) on a daily basis. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > don't be so quick to thanks us ;-) the price of submitting ideas is > > > being willing to actively help to make it happen :-) > > > > > > IMO asking the secretary to send more mails would just add more strain > > > to our key volunteer infrastructure. so, the some means of automation > > > would be needed. > > > > > > IMHO this means using JIRA to record and track these documents and the > > > associated workflow. the easiest way to do this would be by finding a > > > way to allow contributors to submit an iCLA via JIRA. AIUI the > > > requirement for submission by fax, email or mail is a legal one, so > > > the first step you need to take is to subscribe to legal-discuss and > > > ask what steps apache needs to take to allow submission of iCLAs via > > > JIRA. > > > > > > - robert > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
