OIC, yes, it's all right there! Maybe you can point out the parts we were talking about, where the "Grant ASF" button is and all.
That doc assumes someone is a committer. Thanks for the input though. On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:52 AM, Johan Edstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
