Does anyone call out the need for a new CEP for bringing the gocql into the Driver's subproject ? > My suggestion is that this falls under CEP-8, even if it is not DataStax > donating this particular codebase, the process is largely the same and it is > the Drivers subproject receiving it. +1 to future driver donations falling under CEP-8
On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 1:03 PM, Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > Ok, so we're got confidence now on how to approach this, confirmation from > the project's maintainers supporting it, and interest from a handful of > people interested in maintaining and contributing to the project. > > The proposed plan forward is… > > We will go through a round of collecting CLAs along with agreements to donate > work to ASF from all gocql authors, over email and LinkedIn searches and > messages. We will also open a github issue on the gocql project describing > the steps involved and mentioning all the authors. A response on the GH > issue from everyone agreeing to the donation is the best single place to > collect the responses from everyone, but we'll accept and work with > whatever/however we get them. These authors will also need to sign this > ICLA and submit it to the ASF. > > After a four week grace period we will move ahead with the IP donation to > ASF, and make a list of all work (files) that we don't have CLAs for. Such > work may remain with headers honouring their past MIT license and authors. > When the work is accepted and brought into the Cassandra Driver subproject we > will be looking to add committers to the subproject. These may or may not be > people who have expressed interest in further contributing to the codebase, > but rather people we trust regardless when/if they come back to contribute. > > Does anyone call out the need for a new CEP for bringing the gocql into the > Driver's subproject ? > My suggestion is that this falls under CEP-8, even if it is not DataStax > donating this particular codebase, the process is largely the same and it is > the Drivers subproject receiving it. > > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 12:31, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>>> We can open an issue with LEGAL to see what they say at least? >>> >>> >>> I will raise a LEGAL ticket. >>> >>> My question here is whether we have to go through the process of >>> best-efforts to get approval to donate (transfer copyright), or whether we >>> can honour the copyright on the prior work and move forward ( by >>> referencing it in our NOTICE.txt, as per >>> https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html ) >> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-674
