This is clear now, there is no room for doubt.

Thanks !

Matthieu


On Mar 4, 2013, at 14:42 , Benson Margulies wrote:

> You DO NOT NEED AN ICLA from these people.
> 
> Under the terms of the AL, any contribution made back to the ASF on
> ASF infrastructure, such as via a mailing list, JIRA, or Bugzilla, is
> licensed to the foundation. The JIRA checkbox existed to give people
> an easy way to _avoid_ contributing something. There is no need to ask
> casual patchers for ICLAs.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Matthieu Morel <mmo...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In the S4 project we have some recent patches from non-committers, but we 
>> have doubts on how to integrate them.
>> 
>> In the past, the Jira system had a clearly defined way for the contributor 
>> to mark the patch as granted to the ASF.
>> 
>> Typically (wording from the hbase book): "The patch should be attached to 
>> the associated Jira ticket "More Actions -> Attach Files". Make sure you 
>> click the ASF license inclusion, otherwise the patch can't be considered for 
>> inclusion".
>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately it seems that with the latest Jira updates, this option is not 
>> available anymore to contributors.
>> 
>> 
>> So, now, what is the proper way to ensure a patch can be included in the 
>> codebase of an Apache (incubator) project? Do we need contributors, even 
>> casual ones, to file an ICLA?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for any clarification!
>> 
>> 
>> Matthieu
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