Henri Yandell wrote: > One thing that came out of the board meeting was making sure that the > community knew how to bring code into the ASF. What the scenarios are, > and what the rules are. > > Looking around at the Incubator, it's well documented at > http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/, and I'd like to send a > short email to committers@ pointing out the existence of that page and > that even if code is written by Apache committers, if it's not > developed at Apache then that page needs to be adhered to. > > Any thoughts on the below?
On the ip-clearance page under the "Additional Notes" section, it says how to handle a contribution by multiple parties instead of by a single entity. Two options are listed and both involve the multiple parties signing a software grant. For Cayenne, we understood the project should just obtain iCLAs from all past contributors (which Cayenne did, and they reimplemented any pieces by contributors whom could not be found). I seem to recall there was another podling this year that was handled similarly. Can that be listed as a valid third option? -jean > ----- > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bringing code to Apache > > Hello ASF committers, > > At the recent board meeting the subject of whether the committers were > all aware of how to handle bringing code to Apache and doing IP > clearances. It was felt that a reminder would not be a bad idea (OK I > admit it - I admitted to not being sure how it worked and stepped > right into being a 'volunteer'). Here goes.... > > We're all aware of the Incubator. If we have a project out there that > wants to join the ASF then we direct them to the > general@incubator.apache.org mailing list and their community becomes > an ASF community through a mentored education process. All good, but > it doesn't cover large lumps of code that we want to bring into our > projects in the ASF, into an already existing community. > > For these cases we have IP clearance. It applies regardless of whether > the author of the code is an ASF committer or not an ASF committer - > the important part is that the code was developed outside of the ASF > SVN repository and the ASF public mailing lists. > > This takes the form of an xdoc xml template that needs to be filled > out and checked into the Incubator SVN, please see this page for more > details - http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/. > > Thanks, and sorry for the noise if this was something you already knew. > > Henri Yandell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
