Thanks for that advice, Craig. I have gone ahead and created https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/arrow-rust-ballista.html in preparation for the vote and I have a couple more questions now:
1. The trademark search did find other software products using the name Ballista as a registered trademark. What are the implications of this? Will I need to remove use of that name from the PR before proceeding to a vote? 2. What do I do about the checklist item "Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record"? Do I go ahead and put a date against it and add additional text stating that not all contributors have submitted a CLA? Thanks, Andy. On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:32 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > This is just my opinion; others may have different ideas. > > I'm considering that the project is licensed under the terms of the Apache > License, v2.0 and I'm assuming that the contributors knew that when they > made their contributions. > > I'd continue to try to obtain ICLAs from the other contributors (not just > the 5 with >1 commit but all of them). > > I'd guess that you won't get every single contributor to file an ICLA but > it's probably ok to continue to a vote. > > The only risk that I see is one of the contributors later has a change of > mind, decides that they didn't understand that this is an open source > project intended to be licensed under the terms of the ALv2.0 and then > complains. At that point, the project might decide that they need to > rewrite the contributor's code in order to remove the nuisance. > > So I'd say to go ahead and expect that the contributors who fail to submit > an ICLA are just not interested and will fade into history without any > trouble. > > Regards, > Craig > > > On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Dave. > > > > To give an update on the situation, out of the 12 committers with > 1 > > commit, we have ICLAs submitted or already on file for 7 of those, > > including all the contributors that I would consider key to the project. > I > > have been unable to get any response from the other 5 so far. > > > > Based on this, should I consider moving to a vote now or wait and see if > I > > can get more signed ICLAs? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andy. > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:00 AM Dave Fisher <wave4d...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > >> Hi - > >> > >> Since this is Andy’s project under the Apache License then I’m not sure > >> that other’s ICLA matters. But ... > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Mar 25, 2021, at 8:25 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Andy > >>> > >>> Typically you would look at the top contributors and aim for ICLAs from > >>> those. Don't forget you have to have a vote here as well when done! > >>> > >>> I would aim for these individuals: > >>> > >>> 231 Andy Grove > >>> 27 Ximo Guanter > >>> 7 QP Hou > >>> 6 Boaz Berman > >>> 5 Daniël Heres > >>> 4 Jack Chan > >>> 4 Patrick More > >>> 3 Ben Cohen > >>> 3 Hendrik Makait > >>> 3 Jorge Leitao > >>> 2 Hamish Nicholson > >>> 2 Tanapol Prucksakorn > >> > >> I would look more into the nature of these commits. Who would you ask to > >> be a committer? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dave > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> John > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:18 AM Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> The Apache Arrow PMC has passed a vote to accept the donation of the > >>>> Ballista project [1]. > >>>> > >>>> The donation contains code from ~30 contributors and it may not be > >> possible > >>>> to obtain ICLAs from all of them. If this does turn out to be the > >>>> situation, what steps can we take instead? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> Andy. > >>>> > >>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9723 > >>>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >