Is there a "standard" within the incubator about how we go about getting the appropriate forms filled out when we want to incubate a project from GitHub? GitHub fosters a sort of fly-by contribution model (and that's a good thing), but it makes donating the code a bit troublesome, because we need to make sure that all (to a certain degree?) of the contributors do, in fact want to donate the code they contributed to the foundation.
Note that this problem isn't necessarily unique to GitHub, but Git itself somewhat highlights the issue because contributions from outside parties (pull requests) do maintain metadata about their original authors. With SVN, typically someone with "karma" has to do the commit and it gets tagged with their identity, so the audit trail goes cold (comments can contain attributions, but that's hard to report on). Anyway, just looking for some guidance here. We are trying to move TinkerPop forward and how exactly we go about getting the forms filled out properly is somewhat of a blocker. Thanks, James Carman, Assistant Secretary Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
