----- Original Message ----
> From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, September 16, 2010 7:40:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Accepting patches in a podling
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
> > ...It takes about two minutes to make a JIRA. If
> > the contributor can't spare those two minutes, how are they having time to
> > make a patch at all?...
>
> > ...Perhaps this is because I'm accustomed, at both my day job and on
several
> > Apache projects, to seeing JIRA as the central organizing tool of
everything
> > that gets done. If there isn't a JIRA, it doesn't exist...
>
> I think that's the key in this discussion: if a project considers JIRA
> their central organizing tool, it's fine to require patches to go
> there.
>
> If another project prefers patches on the dev list, that also works,
> though JIRA helps make the "intentional contribution" bit more
> explicit.
>
> In both cases, authors of "substantial contributions" (whatever that
> means) need to have an iCLA on file.
It means "independently copyrightable".
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