On 6 Aug 2009, at 15:13, Robert Dionne wrote:
Git really encourages a more distributed, less centralized approach
to development, that allows the centers of gravity to move as they
evolve. This is a good and healthy thing in many contexts, perhaps
less so in others.
I'm not sure what the issue is with respect to the CLA. What
prevents you from representing a contribution as your original work
because it originated in GitHub? How does playing in an internal
Apache sandbox solve that?
All ASF committers singed a CLA that says all work committed has been
done by the committer or has gone through incubator IP clearance. If
you get a patch on github, that is not your work, when you then commit
that, you break the CLA. If you do sole development on github, no
problem, but github encourages the code-collaboration.
It's important to recognize that not everyone in the CouchDB
community is necessarily part of the Apache community. Some are just
friendly visitors.
Only members of the Apache community (note: note ASF Members), can
commit code to ASF SVN.
Cheers
Jan
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Cheers,
Bob
On Aug 6, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Curt Arnold wrote:
While I'm bringing up contentious issues, use of github for a
sandbox for developing significant modifications to CouchDB makes
me uneasy. If I start something on github and accept contributions
and ideas from other uses, I can't represent the eventual patch as
my original work (as required by the CLA). Also, it reduces the
visibility (barring an explicit opt-in) of the development from the
radar of the PMC and community. Other ASF projects have created
"sandboxes" in their SVN for experimental work and the threshold
for commit access to the sandbox could be lower than the trunk
(still would require CLA and an Apache account). Any Apache
committer could use Apache Labs, but since that is not developed
with the oversight of the community that still needs a pass through
the Incubator. Having a sandbox or labs branch in the CouchDB SVN
would provide a location for non-trunk development that is still
under the oversight of the PMC and community.
