On 06 Jun 2005, at 13:55, Ross Gardler wrote:
Really? That could be a real problem for getting folks to contribute to the docs. It implies that, even to make a spelling correction, they would need to submit a CLA.
We can be lenient about this: we don't require CLA signoff for casual contributors as we do due diligence ourselves. We must obtain a CLA from regular contributors. The switch in Jira is nice but it doesn't cover everything anyhow, and there's many other contributions methods which require IP oversight by the committers.
There must be some other mecahnism in place otherwise we would not be able to accept patches from non-committers. Can we not just follow the model now used in JIRA? I suppose the difference is that once in the Daisy repository, even in draft state, the contribution can be viewed as being in the Apache version control system.
Yes. Jeff Turner implemented this specifically in Jira for the ASF - i's not part of Jira proper. http://opensource.atlassian.com/jira-asf-plugin/
As you can see from that page, it requires quite a bit of work.
How difficult would it be to make Daisy submit a patch to JIRA rather than creating a new version (when the editor is not a "document committer") and subsequently to allow a patch to be applied via the Daisy interface?
I think obtaining a CLA from proper document committers should be enough for the mean time. Let's see where we get from here.
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