On 07/08/13 11:03, Tom Farrow wrote: > Currently in IT we're working on a contributor agreement similar to > the Committer's Agreement but instead for IT contributors.
Are you sure that it's actually similar to the Committer's Agreement? The Committer's Agreement is a reminder of and a pledge of good behaviour on the part of someone gaining commit access. Is that how you would characterise the IT agreement? > One of my > fellow contributors often asks me "Why can't we just have one > agreement?" which in theory, makes sense Well, what "good behaviour" means will vary widely from role to role. For IT, it would include not looking at other people's private data. For checking in code, it would include making sure the licensing is right. For other roles, it would mean something different again. > I'd like to propose a single agreement for the whole of Mozilla to > use which is: a) Comprehensive b) Simple to understand c) Localized Because of my point just above, I am not sure that we can have both "comprehensive" and "simple". > I find that the idea would be beneficial to the community since > currently, a lot of activity is done based on trust and while having > trust in Mozilla is important, there should be some way to reinforce > that trust legally. I think that we should introduce legal agreements for contributors only in defined areas where we have been advised it is legally necessary. I suspect IT _is_ one of those, but I'm not sure there are that many others. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
