How about we write the thing up clearly in the developers guide, and we add a
description into JIRA when they report the bug (we already have our own custom
descriptions). We may be able to link to the correct page of the developers
guide.
> 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
>
>
(It says at the top that it is a reference copy, to actually fill it in you
login to the eclipse website and they have a checkbox or form thing you can
fill in).
> Anyone have experience with other open source projects that have addressed
> this issue?
Here is an example from webkit http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html
The phrase they use is: If you make substantive changes to a file, you may wish
to add a copyright line for yourself or for the company on whose behalf you
work.
This kind of brings us full circle - what is a "substantive" change? In a sense
it does not really matter as long as we are clear…
Story could go something like:
* Fill in code contribution agreement … when introducing a new method?
Downside is we actually like new methods introduced for clarity, and do not
want to encourage super long methods.
* Fill in agreement when new public or protected method?
That is a bit safer, as changing API = code contribution agreement. Downside is
we like to encourage creation of tests with each patch.
* Fill in code contribution agreement when creating a new file.
(original recommendation)
It makes sense as have a new "item" to track copyright on, and the header needs
to be filled in anyways (so it is not out of our way to think about copyright).
Jody
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