I would agree that the CA pain is overemphasized if the submitter lives in the USA or Canada. It isn't difficult at all.
I have since heard that to get a letter from Russia to the USA, there are several methods, but they range from inexpensive-but-can-take-months-and-are-unreliable, to quick-and-reliable-but-$200. Those are significantly higher barriers than for developers based in the USA and Canada, where it is a 44 cent stamp and a few days to get there quite reliably. Andy On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Softaddicts wrote: > This insistence on the so-called "CA pain" seems to me overemphasized. > It's a one shot process. > > Even if it takes 4 weeks for the paper to reach its destination, it does not > prevent anyone from starting to work on some contribution. The CA > needs to be in by the time the work is about to get published, not by the time > you start to contribute. > > My writing is horrible, worst than a doctor, I hate filling forms by hand but > I > was able to fill the CA, stamp it and drop it in the mailbox in less than 10 > mns. > > I live in Canada close to the US, I can understand the frustration if you > have to drop > by your local post office if it needs to get stamped over there but one time > processes like this rarely benefit from an optimization. > > I would be surprised that we end up with >250,000 contributors in the next > 3 years. There is simply not enough Clojure wired brains out there to get to > numbers like the above. > > If it ever happens, you can bet than Clojure Core will come out > with something to avoid being flooded by papers if it is legally feasible. > > Laws in many countries have been slow to move to consider > electronic formats as legally binding documents. > This may well be why a written CA is needed considering that contributors come > different countries. What may seem obviously legal in one country may not be > legal > at all in another. > > Better documentation is to me by far a more urgent priority to attract newbies > than allowing CAs to be submitted electronically given the legal fees > involved just > to get an opinion about its feasability. > > Luc P. -- 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
