Indeed Emilian. The code needs to be officially granted by Oracle -- right now the Git experiments being done are only experiments. The code needs to be officially granted to ASF and that will certainly be done and is absolutely a requirement. Oracle has already agreed to it otherwise we wouldn't have started this process. But indeed the signing and handing over of the actual agreement must still be done and is a priority.
Gj On Saturday, October 8, 2016, John McDonnell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > <javascript:;>> 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] > <javascript:;>> > > 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. > >> > >
