Thanks guys, I was just a little confused on who/under what circumstances I needed to sign an ICLA.
I had previously (2013) sent in an OCA but I was never added to the list on their website, so I assume I must have been rejected, as I had attempted to provide a patch to Netbeans. Regards John > On 8 Oct 2016, at 20:01, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > > But there is this limbo state between entering incubation and the actual > code grant happening. > > Until the code grant happens and the repository has been migrated, any code > contribution must be made to Oracle. > > The Apache iCLA does not apply, you need to sign the Oracle Contributor > Agreement http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html for > that. > > Which means the code grant must happen sooner rather than later in the > incubation. > > Am I missing something? > > > > --emi > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Le 08/10/16 à 20:03, John McDonnell a écrit : >>> For the ICLA, how much of a contributor do you need to be? >>> >>> Lets say I want to start off helping move the tutorials, or existing >>> content into an apache wiki/confluence page etc, do I need to sign a >>> ICLA? >>> >>> Or is it if I start providing wide ranging code changes outside of >>> patches/PR's attached to an issue? >> >> And to answer the other side of your question: you an be made a >> committer, even if you haven't pushed *anything* in the code base. You >> just have to be invited by the PMC, and t submit your ICLA. >> >> We have some committer at Apache Directory who aren't coders, and who >> aren't updating the doco, but are still valuable (PR, etc). They even >> are part of the PMC :-). But, still, they need to submit an ICLA. >>
