On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:09 AM, Leo Simons wrote:
On 07-06-2005 23:55, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, as part of the Apache Harmony project, we keep a registry of
all 'bulk' contributions.
+1
Second, any contribution by an individual committer that is "bulk" -
a quantity of code that is "re-purposed", "re-licensed" or "re-
contributed", e.g. any bit of code that had been used elsewhere - be
also registered as such.
+1
3) All Authors Are Committers
If you did not write the material yourself, are all of
the authors committers to Apache Harmony and authorized to
participate in the related project component? If not,
then you should not submit this Contribution, although the
Corporate Contributor License Agreement may apply.
I think we may want to define or stick to a definition of
"contributor". We
may have people signing a CLA and/or a code grant but not wanting
to become
a committer (maybe they've lost interest in the code alltogether),
nor would
you want people to get committer priviledges and responsibilities
just be
throwing some code at us.
Ah - there are a few possibilities for confusion, and there seem to
be a few scenarios where this applies :
- the person is working with a bunch of people "in the background" in
which case we don't want that contribution flow. That would require
a Software Grant in the case where that the authors are employees of
an company (for example).
- it's an existing work, in which case the SG applies...
That said, I think we can generalize to defining the term "Authorized
Contributor" or such as one who has completed this form. We would
want all authors of a work to be Authorized Contributors, indep of
the mechanism (incremental commit vs bulk donation)
I'll repsin and put in wiki.
Comments?
Looks pretty good, but what a pain to implement! :-)
Well, the ramifications of screwing up are much worse.
I think we should strive to maximize throughput of this process.
Using SVN
is a good example, perhaps having some commandline tools to aid all
this
makes sense as well.
Yep.
geir
LSD
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