On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:54 -0800 Chris Darroch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He and I have been in touch lately about long-term maintenance > of mod_fcgid. (We've helped by a colleague of mine who can translate > fluently between Chinese and English, although Pan Qingfeng's English > is quite good as well.) In a pinch, I've offered to help get releases > out and review some of the queued-up patches contributed by various > folks. If IP issues can be dealt with, then I'd say a definite +1. FastCGI is one of our most popular third-party extensions, and mod_fcgid appears to be the best available implementation. Does anyone have a complete list of people who have made nontrivial contributions, such that their IP might be affected? > One key question I have (jumping ahead a little) is whether > everyone who has contributed a patch to the project needs to contacted > and a signed contributor agreement recovered from them. If not, then > I would think that we'd just need a CLA from Pan Qingfeng to proceed > (and perhaps, in that case, we could skip the incubator stage, as > Apache ZooKeeper recently did). Possibly a software grant rather than a CLA, if he's basically handing it to us. But yes, we'd need to act together. > If we do need CLAs from all patch contributors, that might take > more time. Fortunately, there's a good change log for the project > with names and email addresses; it includes some of the usual suspects > (like Paul Querna and myself) but also a number of other folks we'd > need to track down. It's unfortunate there's no clear copyright statement, but would it not be reasonable to assume Copyright Pan Qingfeng and deal with him? Contact other contributors as a courtesy, but not let it worry us if some of them prove uncontactable, only if someone actually objects? -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/
