Paul deGrandis: > > 4.) What are the limitations behind changing the CA process? Can the CA > process be made digital (a scan of a signed CA, SSH shared key, OAuth > credential confirmation) or potentially reformed to allow more of the > community to easily get involved, especially for smaller patches or doc > changes? > After looking at similar communities (Scala - > http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/sip-submission.html, Python - > http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/), it seems like there are potential > improvements we could make as the language, ecosystem, and community evolve. > > It would be great if someone from clojure/core could explain why CAs have to be submitted via snail mail.
Oracle, OpenJDK, ASF, Neo Technologies and several other companies accept CAs as PDFs. From my personal experience with neo4j, it takes no more than a day to submit and have your CA confirmed. Sounds like if something is legally acceptable for Oracle, ASF, OpenJDK and significantly smaller yet not exactly young companies, it can work well for Clojure? The current process definitely does not take a day and is problematic for people who live outside of North America and Western Europe. People in Russia, South America, Asia don't necessarily have the luxury of cheap, reliable, fast snail mail delivery to North Carolina. FedEx and friends charge over $200 for a single sheet of paper mailed to Durham, NC from Moscow. $200+ for an opportunity to spend my time contributing to an OSS project in this age of GitHub sounds a little unreasonable. Last time I asked a clojure/core member about this I was told "that's too bad". I don't have an opportunity to go to the Conj, don't have access to clojure-dev and consider myself a pretty active contributor to the ecosystem via clojurewerkz.org. I am sure there are many other people like me in the same situation. Please, clojure/core, explain why the CA process has to be so archaic. MK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
