On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 17:31 Mariatta Wijaya, <mariatta.wij...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Currently, people wanting to contribute to projects like peps, devguide,
> core-workflow, bedevere, need to sign CLA, which requires a bpo account,
> and then they need to add their GitHub account to their bpo account.
>
> I find this quite complicated process and a barrier of entry.
>
> I think it will be great to have this process simplified. I think people
> should not need to have bpo account unless they're actually participating
> in the bug tracker for CPython.
>
> 1. Can we have people sign CLA and not require their bpo account?
>

Yes, we just need a record that's independent of GitHub (or can at least be
easily backed up).


> 2. Other big issue with bpo as CLA host is we don't have easy way that can
> let the-knights-who-say-ni update the label in the PR once the contributor
> has signed the CLA.
>

I've been thinking about this and I think we can with a bit of effort
(basically we need some way to know what repos Ni is hooked up to and then
a cron job that checks all "CLA not signed" PRs). We could also provide a
URL people can visit to trigger a check.

-Brett


> I've brought this up at the language summit, as one of the necessary step
> before we can start using GitHub issues. (that is not yet decided, and this
> is not the thread to argue about it).
>
> But whether we are using GitHub issues or not, the current process needs
> improvement anyway.
>
>
> Mariatta
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