Hi Mark.
Content authored by a project committer falls under Figure #1 of the IP
Due Diligence Process [1] which covers:
Written 100% by
Submitting Committer
or Committer on same
Project under the
supervision of the PMC
The real question, I think, is how do we define "under the supervision
of the PMC". If the content was authored after the individual became a
committer, provides functionality that is within the scope of the
project, has been developed in an open and transparent manner, and the
PMC could otherwise reasonably expect this sort of content to arrive,
then you're good. If you already have a bug open to track and discuss
the contribution, you have a slam-dunk.
A counter example might be some content that you've pulled out of an old
archive that existed before the project was created, or if the committer
disappeared for a month and arrived back with a huge contribution that
nobody expected.
Assuming that this content was authored after the developer gained
committer status, my assessment is that you don't need a CQ.
Does this help?
What's with the poke at Markdown? Did Markdown stop being cool? Did I
miss a memo?
Wayne
[1] https://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf
On 24/03/16 12:21 PM, Mark Stoodley wrote:
If a project committer makes a significant (say > 1000 lines of code)
contribution and the contribution is "new" content (by which I mean a
completely new file or piece of content; not modifications to existing
content in the project), does that necessarily count as an "initial
contribution" under the IP process?
The specific example we've got is the contribution of our coding
standard, which is more than 1000 lines (yeah, I know) of markdown.
Up until this point, we did not have a documented coding standard, so
technically it's "new content" but I have to admit, I felt kind of
silly opening a CQ for it (which I did anyway under the guise of
"better safe than sorry" : see
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134if you're really
interested).
It was contributed by a project committer so doesn't directly fall
under the "> 1000 lines" rule for non committers.
Do we need a CQ for such content?
Later on, one of our committers will be contributing several hundred
thousand lines of Just In Time compiler code. That code, I will
obviously treat as "initial contribution", but looking for some
guidance on where the threshold is for this kind of thing and how
pedantic I should be about it.
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