Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
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

Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: 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

Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Frank Gasdorf
An other OSGeo project, OSGeo Live, requested an email from the mailing list from the potential committer before he/she gets commit access (see Section Commit Access right here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Subversion) to subversion. I know its a bit different with github's pull

Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 28/05/13 14:18, Jody Garnett wrote: I am wondering if we can instead have a contributor-agreement-lite, 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

Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
We could make everyone agree, and make it really easy, like a web form. I could not find an form version of the Eclipse CLA. On 28/05/13 14:18, Jody Garnett wrote: 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

Re: [Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Well the form idea is only one idea. Asking for a statement in Jira or GitHub is fine as well. Ask them enough times and they may want to sign code contribution agreement. -- Jody Garnett On 28/05/2013, at 6:19 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au wrote: We could make

[Geotools-devel] Community patch submission and the contributor agreement

2013-05-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
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