The Architecture Council discussed this at the most recent meeting - see notes https://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council/Meetings/Meeting_Notes - below I quote the relevant part:
- 'Signed Off By' requirements (from cross platform list topic, https://bugs.eclipse.org/558653) - Work started at the Board to revitalize discussion. There is sufficient evidence out there that it should be possible to remove the requirement. - No ETA yet. Discussion requires convincing lawyers. - Architecture Council unanimously agrees that this needs to go Some replies to recent emails on cross-project-issues: > Basically, it means that the technology is there to always require it and to switch it off for committers. Yes - that is what the ECA checker does. I assume once the board approves the change it will be a trivial change for the webmaster team to make to remove the signed-off-by check. > Is that a hard and fast rule everywhere? Because I get forced to sign on the jetty.git website repository on git.eclipse.org IIUC the websites (like simrel) are in a middle state where non-committers have write access to the repo, but as those people with write access aren't "committers" according to the EDP, the signed-off-by is needed. Complicating that further (again IIUC) until the new ECA checker ( https://github.com/EclipseFdn/git-eca-rest-api) was written, commits to the websites and simrel repos did not check for committer state, but rather write permission state to determine if Signed-off-by was needed. I hope that the Board & relevant legal team(s) are able to move this forward. Jonah ~~~ Jonah Graham Kichwa Coders www.kichwacoders.com On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 15:19, Wim Jongman <wim.jong...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right! I did not know that was an option. Basically, it means that the > technology is there to always require it and to switch it off for > committers. > > Al we need is the final last option to switch it off for people that have > signed the contributor agreement. > > Cheers, > > Wim > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:09 PM Denis Roy < > denis....@eclipse-foundation.org> wrote: > >> As per the bug, Signed-off-by is NOT required for committers on that >> project. You are a committer on that project. >> >> s/Yay/Boo/ >> >> >> >> On 2021-03-15 3:05 p.m., Wim Jongman wrote: >> >> I have seen that the BIRT project does NOT require the dreaded >> "signed-off by:" footer. Yay, maybe it is already working: >> >> e.g. https://github.com/eclipse/birt/pull/616 >> >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 5:20 PM Gunnar Wagenknecht <gun...@wagenknecht.org> >> wrote: >> >>> > On Mar 4, 2021, at 16:47, Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I added an action item to discuss on AC call next week. >>> >>> Thanks Jesse. I also added the other two items in the thread to the list. >>> >>> For visibility, the bug (with further details) around "Signed-off by" is: >>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/558653 >>> >>> This requires change in IP policy. Nothing the AC can decide but we can >>> capture our wish in our meeting notes. >>> >>> For the others I am collecting ideas (preferably bug numbers that should >>> be prioritized) that we can give to Denis & team. >>> >>> -Gunnar >>> >>> -- >>> Gunnar Wagenknecht >>> gun...@wagenknecht.org, http://guw.io/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >>> cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org >>> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >>> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cross-project-issues-dev mailing listcross-project-issues-...@eclipse.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >> >> -- >> >> *Denis Roy* >> >> *Director, IT Services | **Eclipse Foundation* >> >> *Eclipse Foundation* <http://www.eclipse.org/>*: The Community for Open >> Innovation and Collaboration* >> >> Twitter: @droy_eclipse >> _______________________________________________ >> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >> cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >
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