All, I'm concerned with some of these threads I'm seeing w/r/t Freemarker. While I'm not a mentor on the project, I've been a user for a while and have been curious about Freemarker at Apache.
I would not cite a CouchDB process from their old wiki. First, its not clear if this is the most recent version (it mentions a migration to the new wiki and an external website which are red flags to me). Second, CouchDB has a much different model and contributor set than other projects do. I would cite a legal JIRA, and as far as I know everyone was already following this guide. I would also cite our legal guidelines https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas in particular where it makes sense to expect an ICLA on file. In general, ASF expects ICLAs for large enough contributions. The size is at the discretion of the PMC receiving the contribution. We do require ICLAs for committers to join a project (to receive an account, to receive write access) and many projects simply follow that model - you need an ICLA at that point in time. I would encourage Freemarker to keep things simple, especially since the total number of contributors is at 13. John On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:48 AM Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > Currently we strictly require a CLA (by which I mean an ICLA or CCLA) > for any contributions to be accepted, as > http://freemarker.org/contribute.html says. > > This practice was inherited from the pre-ASF times, when without > lawyers available, we tried to be on the safe side. But based on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-156 and > https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CommitPolicy and some other mails we > can make things simpler for contributors (not to be confused with > committers). > > So I propose that we say that: > > - People sending contributions with GitHub pull requests need no CLA. > But, before merging, we must check that: > - The mail about the pull request was received to > notificati...@freemarker.incubator.apache.org, so that there's > a record of this even in the ASF infrastructure. > - The files in the pull request has the standard ASF copyright > headers, or no copyright headers in files where that's normally > not present. There's no other conflicting copyright information > included either (like a such LICENSE file). > - People sending in patches as attachment to FreeMarker Jira issues > need no CLA. But, before merging, we must check that: > - It's clear from the wording of the issue that the user wishes to > contribute (as opposed to, for example, just showing an example). > - Copyright headers are in order, just as with GitHub pull request. > > If someone contributes a bigger feature, yet they isn't a committer, > we might still ask a CLA though. But that can be dealt with when such > thing happens. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > >
