On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 22:07, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've looked around for some existing guidelines around CLA > requirements, and so far I've found this: > > https://www.apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html#clas > > So basically, the general idea I've seen is that small, trivial > changes do not require an ICLA, but anything non-trivial should > request one in order to establish provenance of the code over time.
I've been looking at other larger ASF projects and can't find any reference to CLAs needed for contributions. This does seem to conflict with the advice on that page... Here's some examples: https://kafka.apache.org/contributing.html https://cordova.apache.org/contribute/contribute_guidelines.html https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md I've also discovered this blog post (https://apetro.ghost.io/apache-contributors-no-cla/) which looks at this issue and links to a mailing list thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-infrastructure-dev/201112.mbox/%3ca603ffce-623b-43e9-87f8-39baa51c7...@gbiv.com%3E with the following passage... "We don't need a CLA on file to accept contributions from non-committers. We just need a clear intent by the author to contribute under our normal terms." There are other links in the blog post to ASF projects discussing this in the past and coming to the same conclusion. -- Regards, James Thomas
