Bump. There can't be lazy consensus on this. Before I potentially waste time on drafting a proposal, trying to feel the temperature on this change.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > It's up to us to decide, and right now we require the iCLA except for > trivial contributions. > > I want to change this to a more relaxed requirement: > 1. Non-committers do not require an iCLA (you need one anyway to get an > account, so that's really a non-issue) > 2. Require a clear intent by the author to contribute under our normal > terms, for a non-trivial change > > So some of you will be wondering, what does Apache say about this? > From: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-infrastru > cture-dev/201112.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > Roy Fielding: > "Yes, that opinion comes from me speaking as a board member and > author of the Apache License, and has previously been cleared > with Apache's legal team for a long ago discussion with Incubator. > We don't need a CLA on file to accept contributions from non-committers. > We just need a clear intent by the author to contribute under > our normal terms." > > Other opinions: http://apetro.ghost.io/apache-contributors-no-cla/ > > We need to change our Contribute page: > http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/ > > ... as well as any PR templates: > https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media/blob/master/. > github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md > > This declaration of intent, if posted on Github, will be reflected on > [email protected] since Apache sends out an email on each PR or > comment to a PR, so we will be able to track it in our archives. > > As usual it is always the committer's responsibility to make sure that all > code they push to a repository is compliant with ASF policies. > >
