Good point. Maybe having an ICLA on file from him granting rights to his contribution is enough. Or maybe we need to go through a software grant process. He doesn't have to be a committer to grant us rights to incorporate his code.
Sent from my mobile device. On Jun 6, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Rick Winscot <rick.wins...@gmail.com> wrote: > #1 create a Jira issue that outlines what needs to be done > #2 have the party(ies) in question submit a patch > > Does it need to be more complicated than that? > > > On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 6/6/12 12:32 PM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com >> (mailto:gred...@gmail.com)> wrote: >> >>> Making him a committer does require the usual vote process. Why would >>> it not? >>> >> >> Because in this case, the committer has no prior record of merit at Apache. >> He is simply a code owner who wants to help out with the legal clearance of >> his code. If I had known this would be an issue, I would've put him on the >> initial committers list which is another way to become a committer without a >> vote. >> >> Are you sure there are no process exceptions for this scenario? >> >> -- >> Alex Harui >> Flex SDK Team >> Adobe Systems, Inc. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> >> > >
