On Friday, December 20, 2013, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 12/20/2013 09:32 AM, Dolph Mathews wrote: > > In the past, I've been able to get authors of bug fixes attached to > > Launchpad bugs to sign the CLA and submit the patch through gerrit... > > although, in one case it took quite a bit of time (and thankfully it > > wasn't a critical fix or anything). > > > > This scenario just came up again (example: [1]), so I'm asking > > preemptively... what if the author is unwilling / unable in signing the > > CLA and propose through gerrit, or it's a critical bug fix and waiting > > on an author to go through the CLA process is undesirable for the > > community? Obviously that's a bit of a fail on our part, but what's the > > most appropriate & expedient way to handle it? > > > > Can we propose the patch to gerrit ourselves? > > > > If so, who should appear as the --author of the commit? Who should > > appear as Co-Authored-By, especially when the committer helps to evolve > > the patch evolves further in review? > > > > Alternatively, am I going about this all wrong? > > > > Thanks! > > > > [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1198171/comments/8 > > It's not your code, so you really can't propose it without them having > signed the CLA, or propose it as your own. > > Ideally have someone else fix the same bug that hasn't looked at the patch.
This is kind of what I was afraid of :( > > From a quick look, it seems likely that this fix is small and straight > forward enough that the clean new implementation is going to end up > looking very similar. Still, I think it's the right thing to do. I don't want to pick on this example too much... It's just what promoted my question today. In another case, the fix was a one line change and there was no other possible solution (without expanding scope / refactoring). > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org <javascript:;> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- -Dolph
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