Thanks Julian! This is very helpful and I’d like to suggest a perhaps having a good “default” policy in place that all incubators inherit on inception. They may choose to change the default if needed, but this approach installs some rail guards in place right away.
As you and Roman have suggested, the Spark guidelines are crisp and a great start. Perhaps we could (with the permission of the Spark PMC) generalize that and make that the default for all incubators? I’m willing to help on that front as we need a crisp policy for Quickstep. Apologies in advance if this suggestion blows against some well established principle. This is all new and a learning opportunity for all of us in the recently incubated Quickstep project. Cheers, Jignesh > On Jun 1, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > > A couple of projects I am mentoring have raised very similar questions > recently: > * Do contributions via github PRs require a CLA? > * Do PRs require a JIRA case? > > I know the answers to these questions, but I was unable to find them clearly > documented. All committers, including those in podlings, need to be very > clear on IP policy. I looked in the Committers’ FAQ[1] and Guide for New > Committers[2] but neither of them explicitly answered the questions. > Searching for answers, I found legal JIRAs [3], [4] but we can’t expect all > committers to find these. > > Now, maybe the answer is “Every project must write its own set of committer > guidelines.” But if so, we as the IPMC should be helping podlings do that. > > Julian > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html > <http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html> > > [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html > <http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html> > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-156 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-156> > > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-249 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-249> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
