Hi, Since recent projects trend to use GitHub and GitHub names instead of real names. It can make it hard to match ICLAs to real people so I think it makes sense to have it on the ICLA form. Best to probably make it optional as not everyone have a GitHub account.
Thanks Justin On Sun, 9 May 2021, 12:21 pm Craig Russell, <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Roman, > > I understand that GitHub now recommends (not enforced) that people use a > single GitHub id for all of their interactions on the service, and to > specifically delete all accounts except for the one account. They can then > merge the deleted accounts to their one account. > > [So this is different from Google mail accounts, which Google encourages > folks to have multiple accounts for different purposes.] > > If people have multiple GitHub accounts, the one on the ICLA would be the > one that they plan to have associated with their Apache id in future. > > Apache will only allow an Apache id to be associated with one GitHub id so > I think we are ok there. Happy to have operations verify this. > > Craig > > > On May 8, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 6:03 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> I propose to modify the ICLA to include the submitter's github id. > These days, with GitHub, projects propose new committers and all they > really know about them is the contributors' github id. This sometimes makes > it challenging for Secretary to find the corresponding PMC vote, which > delays things. If the github id is included in the ICLA, it's much easier > to verify the project and the status of the contributor. > > > > My immediate reaction: which one of half a dozed GH IDs do you mean? > > (and yes, people have been train to segregate between different > > employees, organizations, etc.) > > > > Also, I'm really not quite sure what verification step knowing ONE of > > these IDs would help. Can you please elaborate? > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
