Because we hope that people who don't write code and don't know how to generate diffs and use JIRA contribute to our documentation.
We can provide the same providence and copyright assurances outside of JIRA. It's a checkbox, it's not hard. -Mikeal On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Why? It's not about process per se, it's about providence and copyright > assurances. > > On 7 Mar 2010, at 00:24, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > >> I think for social and community reasons requiring the same process >> for doc changes as we do for code contributions is a huge barrier to >> documentation contributions. >> >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Oh, technically we could. The issue here is social and organisational. >>> >>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 23:35, Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 16:48, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> That cannot happen. The official site is kept in ASF Subversion. >>>>>> >>>>>> This is orthogonal to the rest of the proposal. >>>>> >>>>> No it's not. >>>>> >>>>> The main site has to be from Subversion, and any additions or merges to >>>>> Subversion have to be provided by someone who has signed a copyright >>>>> agreement, or checked the box in JIRA, or otherwise indicated that they >>>>> are allowed to contribute the work, and are happy for it to be licensed >>>>> the way it will be licensed. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Noah, >>>> >>>> Can you point me to the information concerning the main site being >>>> required to be served from SVN? The FAQ [1] for the Confluence wiki >>>> explicitly covers using a dump as a project's main site, so I can't >>>> fathom that we wouldn't be able to pull in a subdirectory from outside >>>> SVN. The restrictions covered in the FAQ are that we can't put user >>>> contributions into a release tarball or in SVN, but no one is >>>> suggesting that since it'd require all contributions to be covered by >>>> an ICLA or similar. >>>> >>>> AFAICT, this would be equivalent to us mirroring the coverage reports >>>> generated by buildbot. >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> [1] http://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/ >>> >>> > >
