On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Michael Klishin wrote: > 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. > > >
I'd just like to echo this sentiment. I would very much like to contribute to Clojure, but getting a CA from Ankara to NC just isn't practical. I'm lucky in that I'll be in the US for a couple of conferences later this fall, at which point I should be able to send one from a hotel somewhere, but I'm disappointed that an electronic copy is not considered sufficient (especially now that Preview.app on the Mac let's me import my signature using the web cam). I completely understand and agree with the desire for there to be at least a small barrier before one can become involved with Clojure development, but requiring physical mail seems like a biased barrier that is much larger for some than others. -- Joshua Ballanco ELC Technologies™ 1771 NW Pettygrove Street, Suite 140 Portland, OR, 97209 jballanco (mailto:jballa...@elctech.com)@elctech.com (mailto:kmil...@elctech.com) P +1 866.863.7365 F +1 877.658.6313 M +1 646.463.2673 T +90 533.085.5773 http://www.elctech.com (http://www.elctech.com/) -- 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
