On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/27/11 3:53 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 7/27/11 3:31 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe that would be OK. >>> >>> Michele Zuccala just mailed to the list. He said he can provide an ICLA, >>> which would be easier than adding all his patches to a JIRA with the >>> checkbox checked. >>> >>> It's just a matter to send a mail with the ICLA attached (I guess it >>> should >>> be a scan or a picture of the ICLA with the written signature). >> >> It is not about how much time it takes to scan an ICLA and send it :). >> He was not in the initial list of committers and as the [VOTE] has >> been accepted and closed and the podling has started I am afraid that >> he should gain credits to become a committer. >> I know it might sound weird a little at the beginning, but it is not >> only about committing code, it is more about understanding the rules >> and way of Apache of doing OSS and hence comes these set of rules. And >> I have to point that I am not talking about Michele Zuccala in >> particular, I am talking in general. > > I think you misenderstood me : I never said that sending an ICLA grants you > a commit access. > > *if* you have provided a patch, and *if* you are not in the initial list of > committers for this podling, then in order to clear the IP for the code that > you have provided, you must either grant The ASF the right to use your patch > through a JIRA where you checked the 'grant the ASF' box, or by sending an > ICLA. > > At least, this is how I understand the IP clearance.
In that regard, I see no problems at all, and I agree with you from the perspective. > > Anyway, I don't think we have hundreds of patches from many people, so let's > do that through JIRA, that would be simpler > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
