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.
> >>
>
>

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