Thanks for the pointers John, exactly the feedback I was hoping for.
I guess the way forward is to ask the contributor for a comment on the jira
with;
link to the pull request
permission to use the contribution.
That would then seem to move the contribution as entering through a patch
on a jira, number 4 on the list in that legal doc.
Anyone else think we need to do more here?
Cheers,
Adam
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds alright to me; but you may need to have the original
> contributor grant permissions to add it to ASF, somewhere on the JIRA
> or mailing list or so, such that there's a record. You can then
> perhaps avoid what we had to do in Apache Oozie (then in Incubator) in
> the aftermath of missing attachments and using the reviewboard patches
> to commit directly (see end comments on tickets
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-629,
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-759, etc.).
>
> I think the http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/legal.html
> limits the contribs to come in from a few places only as per the
> development process; but I may be wrong as am no expert on
> interpreting legal text.
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Adam Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > So using https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 it is possible to
> > work with pull requests outside of github. I'm also all for letting the
> > barrier to entry for newcomers.
> >
> > So i was thinking about making a patch from the request and then adding
> > that to the appropriate jira and then committing from there. Sound like a
> > reasonable approach?
> >
> > This came up from Mirko's question on how to contribute a patch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Adam
>
>
>
> --
> Harsh J
>
