From general-return-30921-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Tue Aug 2 10:06:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D7366352 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20298 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2011 10:06:11 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 19035 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2011 10:05:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 19014 invoked by uid 99); 2 Aug 2011 10:05:51 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:05:51 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of robertburrelldonkin@gmail.com designates 209.85.213.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.213.175] (HELO mail-yx0-f175.google.com) (209.85.213.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:05:40 +0000 Received: by yxi19 with SMTP id 19so3764124yxi.6 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:05:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=wAP2Im39pHPu11t2HQQps07LOjyC9pwfzsWayEA7TLo=; b=ukGs+H0a4XPP3BzIPL8yEKxqj7yKl/KZ6kEqvMUqRzNO860pkqQLPulzTzVEsMx8BY estRHhvycCruPvldF9FNgCy8GeU8mkri8Z2G3EQnT1NEAEsya0xVpJELbOlhhYDkd7f7 mXKwN+flunTtGTkraRXN+jerx7YGX6yqrSaiA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.139.199 with SMTP id c47mr3251805yhj.169.1312279520330; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.107.233 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 03:05:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 3 month deadline on CLA item From: Robert Burrell Donkin To: general@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > As can be seen elsewhere, I'm on a self-given mission to clean up the > history of podlings by getting them to sign off on the following > checklist item: > "Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF > been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the > package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. " :-) > I view this as the first item that a podling should be dealing with, > along with setting up the committers and getting that first codebase > in. By comparison, a website is a nice to have and community is just > icing. In principle, right. In practice, the legal sign-off is often quite slow in arriving and people like to make a start. (Perhaps might be useful to ask podlings for brief weekly updates until signoff arrives to help with tracking...) > Proposal time. > > In parallel to cleaning up history, I'd like to stop the rot going > forward. I'd like to propose that each new podling has 3 months (or > another calendar length if that feels too short/too long) to get the > checklist item signed off. I'm partial to 3 months as we would make > them report monthly until they have the item signed off, perhaps with > 6 months as a 'do we retire the podling?' checkpoint. > > Thoughts? Sounds good. If we make it 3 months then best to start the clock after the holiday season is over... Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org