On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > That makes a lot of sense to me, thanks Chip. > > For those public repos for non-committers, I presume that they can't use > Apache infrastructure, so Github would be the natural choice. We have a > mirror there now (as of last week) so people can clone and work there. How > does that sound? > > Regarding the third point, I don't know what the ASF requires in terms of > authorship indicators in commit messages. We obviously need all authors to > have signed the ICLA, but other than that I don't know of a written policy. > Unless there's something contradictory, putting the Author names in the > commit message seems reasonable to me.
The below has some guidance: http://apache.org/dev/committers.html#applying-patches Essentially some annotation needs to be made, but there is no absolute practice; so comments are fine. --David
