With the recent adoption of the new GeoTools contributor agreement, the PMC considered the status of patches submitted by community members who have not signed the agreement. For example, we sometimes receive patches attached to Jira issues or emailed to the mailing lists. As mentioned in recent committee meeting notes, we had hoped to emulate Eclipse and allow small patches (with no new files) received from the community to be incorporated into the code base. It has not turned out to be as easy as we had hoped.
Jody, I looked at the Eclipse committer documentation: http://www.eclipse.org/legal/committerguidelines.php This states that Eclipse rely on their website terms of use to obtain assertions of ownership and irrevocable grants of license: http://www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php We have no such terms of use, as our Jira is provided by Codehaus and our mailing lists are provided by SourceForge. I am wondering if we can instead have a contributor-agreement-lite, which does not require access to a printer and scanner. I think this page was meant to have checkboxes and an accept button: http://www.eclipse.org/legal/CLA.php Anyone have experience with other open source projects that have addressed this issue? Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
