Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > There's nothing stopping them from contributing provided they have > signed a CLA. We are never going to get the legal protection that > requires this unless we do this, which sucks (actually, you can in a > few countries, like Scotland, which have legally binding verbal > contracts, but they are few and far between).
I'm not saying that we shouldn't have some protection; maybe we should have all contributors sign SLAs. That's not really the issue though. The issue is that in the infrastructure that the ASF provides there is no technical distinction in commit permissions between contributor earning merit and PMC member who has been voted in because they've earned the position. Any committer could alter core code. That's a clear departure from what we do now. Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
