On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 11:04 +0100, Alberto Ruiz - Sun Microsystems - Dublin Ireland wrote: > Hello, > > > > Stephen Lau wrote: > >> Can we use PGP signing with trusted keys? > >> > > I don't think those have proved to be legally enforceable. > > > My name is Alberto Ruiz, from the Sun Ray group, I'm working on the > opensourcing of APOC (apoc.freedesktop.org) that is ought to be released > on November. > > I've just subscribed to the mailing list, so I'm quite late to the > discussion, Phillip Russell has forwarded me the answers to the initial > question that I sent to him. > > My main worry about the issue is not the process itself, which is > reasonable for commit access, but with small patches and contributions. > If someone takes the time to write a patch and send it to us, I don't > find how can we ask them to do even more work than they've done already. > The Apache Foundation for example, follows this pattern, the > contribution agreement is only needed for commit access, the GNOME > Foundation does just the same. > > It's really upsetting to do this kind of things after the whole effort > of writting a patch, I think that some (most?) people would give up, and > we would end up with lots of frozen patches on our bug tracking > systems/mailing lists. > > For big projects like OpenSolaris.org or OpenJDK, people might have > motivation enough, but APOC is a small project, and chances to attract > contributions are already hard, this kind of requirements would not only > ending up with less contributions, but people ranting about us and > spreading a bad image of the company. > > The question that I've been unable to get answer for is, is it possible > to apply the SCA only for people requesting commit access? Who can I ask > to try to find a solution on this regard?
What is APOC? I went to the website and was informed that I'm not allowed to view it? Do Sun realise the key component in OpenSource is Open? Matthew -- Kaiwai's Blog: http://kaiwai.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
