It is really clear. http://www.apache.org/dev/git.html
On Aug 17, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Brian Topping <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When you are not committer on a project, and you contribute a patch, you >> have to explicitly grant your license to ASF. To do that, you just mention >> it by checking "Grant ASF" when attaching the file to the Jira. > > Yes, i appreciate that, but I thought we were trying to clarify whether > Github pulls were acceptable means of providing patches. It seems that they > are not acceptable for non-committers, so the fact that there are pull > requests obscures the fact that those pull requests are unusable and > therefore not statistically relevant. > > Having said that, it would be good to concretely clarify that Github pulls > are not acceptable for non-committers, avoiding any interpretation that > Github is a means by which non-committers can provide value to the project. > It's important because it is actually very difficult in my experience to get > patches applied, which dissuades people from contributing and makes it appear > that nobody is interested when there may in fact be many folks interested in > contributing but find it too unproductive to do so. These misinterpretations > are very damaging to a project since valuable contributions (however small or > unimportant to one group) are never made, and folks of a mindset similar to > the person who never contributed do not in turn ever start using the project > because these features never made it in. > > This is very much an anti-pattern in ASF projects, but I've found it pretty > common as well, so please don't interpret this as me calling out Karaf in > particular. > > Brian
