On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:26:07AM +0100, Alex Heneveld wrote:
> 
> Chip, Richard,
> 
> To date we (the committers) have verified that potential contributors have a
> signed CLA with the Brooklyn project, before accepting a PR.  What are the
> requirements for accepting commits into Brooklyn as an ASF project?

Having a CLA for contributions prior to CloudSoft's donation of the
project to the ASF is awesome...  that gave you the right to do the
donation (I assume, since I have not read the CLA).

That said, the older agreement has no standing for the ASF.  See my
comments in reply to Richard's email about the way that we ensure that
someone wanted to donate *to Apache Brooklyn* vs something else.

> 
> Presumably we need to check whether a person has a CLA on file with the ASF.
> Is there a checklist of other things?

CLA's are not strictly required, and there is a bit of a fuzzy gray area
about the size of a contribution that triggers the requirement for an
ICLA.  Small patches, don't worry about it...  larger patches, start
considering it.

As an aside, it seems to me that if you have people that have been
consistently contributing enough to the project that you know they have
CLA's on file with Brooklyn, but were not added as initial contributors
during the donation process, PPMC should plan on actively inviting these
folks to be committers (discussion of specific names should be done on
[email protected]).


> 
> And how can we check whether someone has a CLA w ASF ?
> 
> (It's just half a dozen contributors or so for the commits since the SGA so
> shouldn't be too hard to confirm these once we know the process.)
> 
> --A
> 
> 
> On 29/05/2014 21:11, Chip Childers wrote:
> >Given David's comment and note about Brett's concerns with the usergrid
> >workflow, it would make sense to get the change over done now.
> >
> >One of the challenges that we have right now is that the SGA was sent in
> >to donate the Brooklyn code to the ASF.  However, we're going to need to
> >review all of the commits that have been pulled into the booklyn GH repo
> >and then pushed into the ASF, to be sure that the person providing the
> >changes fully understood that they were effectively making a donation to
> >the ASF.
> >
> >This might not seem like a huge deal ATM, but IP provenance is critical to
> >the rationale behind the ASF IP management processes / policies.
> >
> >So...  instead of pulling any more commits from GH, I think it's time to
> >switch to ASF as the canonical repo ASAP.
> >
> >Can you guys do that?
> >
> >-chip
> 

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