On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > 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.
It is long thread, but last month the INcubator debated and voted to retire what was essentially a student project in China - Bluesky. Some of the concerns and problems encountered may help you understand some of the special issues with students and the Apache model of open, community development. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E Regards, Dave > > > - 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 > > > > > >
