Are there guidelines for these "usual considerations"? On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:44 AM, James Carman > <ja...@carmanconsulting.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > 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. > > Simple answer: no. It is up to you to get ICLA/CCLA/SGA as appropriate > for all contributors based on the usual considerations of contribution > size, copyright ownership, and provenance clarity. if you have some > stray commits that you can't cover, you can either reimplement, or > make an argument that are below the threshold of concern. The github > metadata helps a bit, but since you have no guarantee that the > committer is the author, there's no possible way to see this as > automated. The fact that code is published under the AL does _not_ > make it automatically code that you can pull in no matter what else. > We require a positive intent to contribute the code 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 > <javascript:;> > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > <javascript:;> > >
