I'm delighted to see that you are submitting your iCLA. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I want to point out that registration of an iCLA is a prerequisite for becoming a committer, but it is not sufficient. There must also be an invitation (which only Initial Committers have automatically) and a few others steps to establish the committer.
Finally, because we are talking about students, it may be necessary to be careful about submitting the work of others. (This may be a case where having registered an iCLA may be valuable whether or not a student becomes a committer in the time in which they are involved with the project.) I'm not sure how this works for minors. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: eric b [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Commiters list Hi Dave, Le 14 juil. 11 à 20:13, Dave Fisher a écrit : >> I did. But I thought we could contribute with patches without sign >> it. > > Yes, but if you do it that way you are not a Committer, not on the > PPMC, and not on the Podling Status Page. Someone with Committer > karma must commit your patches for you. > Yes, I got this point already. >> >>> Simply put, it's not about copyright, just about IP clearance and >>> licensing. Both are important aspects of every software project. >>> It's understandable that the ASF does not accept contributions >>> where it is unclear if the contributor has the necessary rights >>> for the contributed code. >>> >> >> Yes, sure. IWe got students who would like to directly contribute >> to OpenOffice.org, and I'll forward the info. > > Signing an ICLA is a requirement to be a Committer, but it is not > the only requirement. The main requirement is merit earned by > contributions to the existing project here. See http:// > community.apache.org/newcommitter.html Ok. I did the first step, and I sent the signed ICLA (following the instructions). To be honest, IBM Symphony contribution and your explanation decided me :) > > Initial Committers are a special case, the only merit required is > signing up on the list. > > Your students will need to contribute via the method of submitting > patches which will be evaluated and applied by Committers. > Usualy, we review the code twice, and test everything before to commit for them, but in the current case, I think they could contribute to the OOo build system directly and more, so I'll advertise them about the ICLA. Regards, Eric Bachard -- qɔᴉɹə Education Project: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news
