Small patches got posted on BugZilla all the time and committed without a strict check for an OCA.
I believe I read somewhere that you don't even need a CLA for small fixes. Since I am also involved in the patch creation, that makes me a co-author. În dum., 1 ian. 2017 la 06:27 Wade Chandler <[email protected]> a scris: > Considering everyone involved has signed both, what is your concern which > > would differ if on hg.netbeans.org or any where else? This isn't > inherently > > different if someone added it to hg.netbeans.org today were they an OCA > > signer; there wasn't any broadcast code freeze. The integrator would have > > the same role regardless would they not? > > > > Too, for now, this is Emi's repo where the work of the donation was > > suggested to take place. This isn't yet an official Apache repo. > > > > On paragraph 5, that interpretation isn't how patch submission through BZ > > has worked before nor after Oracle acquisition, so not sure the difference > > in this scenario to BZ patch submission. > > > > Wade > > > > > > On Dec 31, 2016 8:34 PM, "Matthias Bläsing" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Am Samstag, den 31.12.2016, 20:53 +0200 schrieb Emilian Bold: > > > Chris did the first pull request on main-silver: > > > https://github.com/emilianbold/main-silver/pull/1 > > > > > > We are still working on polishing it and I will have to manually > > > commit the > > > patch under my @netbeans.org ID but this is very nice! > > > > I suggest not to do this! There are some very explicit assumptions in > > the OCA and Apache Contributer Agreement. As the transfer of owner has > > not happend yet, a commit to the netbeans code base can only be done by > > oracle or an OCA signee. An OCA signee can only commit code he/she > > authored (that would be paragraph 5 of the OCA). > > > > I know that everybody is excited and it would be nice if the transition > > would have already happened, but it will take time and getting hectic > > wont help the process. > > > > In this case I suggest to prepare the patch, polish it, clear > > authorship and save it there. It needs to be cleared when outside code > > may be merged into the codebase if the committer is not the author and > > the author has not signed an CA with apache. > > > > Greetings > > > > Matthias > >
