We at Xtext see a similar result, especially with changes done via
github web.
Telling people to clone and signoff for a trivial fix often leads to
omitting the PR
and recreate the change ourselves.

Am 04.03.21 um 15:51 schrieb Wim Jongman:
>
>  2. ay: You did not sign the ECA.
>  3. 21% of the contributors are confused or don't care and drop off.
>     They say: You merge it for me (which we can't do because it is not
>     our code.)
>  4. The rest goes to the website to sign the ECA.
>  5. It turns out you need to create an Eclipse account first, so
>     another 53% does not bother. Why is this? People have a Github
>     account; can't we work with that?
>  6. The ones left make another change in their PR because that is the
>     only way to retrigger the checks
>  7. Eclipse checks say "no signed-off by" footer in the commit
>     message. This is not needed because all information is already in
>     the commit. IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!
>  8. So the contributor has to REDO ALL THE COMMITS IN THE PR unless
>     they are some git wizard that can update each commit comment: 25%
>     says "Nah."
>
> 1% left of the 77% we still have after step 3

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