On 2/23/2020 11:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:11 PM Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com
<mailto:aeros...@gmail.com>> wrote:
In a recently opened typo fixing PR [1], an issue came up regarding
the lack of a signed CLA, where the author specifically mentioned
they did not want to sign it for privacy concerns.
In that case I'm not sure the author ought to get credit for the PR.
If the account has a real name, then there cannot be a privacy concern.
If if does not, then credit can only be claimed privately.
They can file a bug pointing out the typo and someone else can submit a
fix.
One of that justifications given for moving to github was that is would
allow trivial changes to be submitted without an issue. Allowing merges
for trivial changes without a CLA was intentional, after discussion.
To summarize my response a few minutes ago to Antoine and Chris
Angelico, I consider trivial to mean non-copyrightable because short and
fact based.
(This is what Glyph had to do for all his contributions while he
was employed at Apple.)
And what anyone in a similar situation should still do for anything
non-trivial.
Yeah, typically we don't insist on a CLA for trivial fixes -- it's at
the discretion of the core dev reviewing/merging the PR. I actually
thought this was a policy that was written down somewhere, but I don't
know where (maybe somewhere in the devguide?).
I remember seeing it too. It may have originally been in the tracker
instructions, but should definitely be in the devguide now.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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