David

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 20:08 David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote:

> On 4 Feb 2017, at 07:59, Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I would very much like to leave GNU in order to get rid of the copyright
> assignment requirement so that we could accept range of contributions.
>
> For what it’s worth, both Apple and Microsoft have GitHub bots that tag
> pull requests as being from people who have or haven’t signed their CLA, so
> that developers can review contributions from other people, but can see a
> ’NeedsCLA’ tag in the pull request and so shouldn’t merge them if the legal
> stuff isn’t sorted.  Once someone has signed the CLA, the bot remembers and
> future pull requests from the same contributor are suitably tagged and can
> be merged immediately that they pass code review.


I think this is a great idea.  We could have a bot which tracks who
doesnand doesn't have a copyright assignment.

For libobjc2, we’ve been using the Travis-CI integration with GitHub, so
> that each commit gets the test suite run on Linux and macOS.  This also
> works on pull requests, so you can see if the patch causes any test
> failures (including tests added with the patch, so if a pull request comes
> with a test case for an issue, you can see if it actually fixes it, without
> having to build).
>

TravisCI might be an option for us as well.


> Coverity also has GitHub integration and will run their static analysis
> tools for free on FOSS projects.  They don’t really know about Objective-C,
> but they might catch things in some of the C/C++ parts of the projects.


Very cool


> David
>
> GC
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