Hive only requires committers to sign ICLAs. That doesn't seem to provide any legal protection when non-committers contribute patches.
In days gone by, JIRA made us assign rights to Apache when we attached a patch to an issue. That's still in the instructions for Contributing Your Work <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute#HowToContribute-ContributingYourWork>: "Please note that the attachment should be granted license to ASF for inclusion in ASF work" although the JIRA GUI doesn't have that option anymore. See Apache's page on licenses <http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas>: "The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement" *(highlighting added)*. So documentation in the wiki should also be covered by ICLAs. Carried to extremes, anyone who participates on a mailing list, comments on a JIRA issue, or reviews a patch should sign an ICLA. -- Lefty On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Sushanth Sowmyan <[email protected]> wrote: > I seem to remember something on the lines of that the traditional reason > was so that a project could be sure that the contributor had an ICLA on > file with apache so as to not expose the project to legal risk of code that > was contributed that the contributor did not have any rights to. We should > probably check with folks from other projects who've had experience dealing > with stuff like this? > > Maybe Owen? > On May 2, 2015 17:08, "Thejas Nair" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sending again, didn't make to the list for some reason. > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Thejas Nair <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:53 PM > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Allow any jira user to assign HIVE bugs to them self > > To: dev <[email protected]> > > > > > > I am not sure why a user needs to ask to be added as a contributor in > > HIVE jira to be able to assign jiras to themselves. I don't see it > > adding any value. Also the jira ADMIN UI for adding this is usually > > flaky. > > > > I think we should let any jira users assign the bugs to them self. > > Looks like adding jira-users group to contributions would do it. > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Thanks, > > Thejas > > >
