Removing cla Prerequisite from some hosted groups

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:44:17PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> As you may have been made aware, the Fedora Project has recently switched
> From the Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA) to the
> Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).  We have reached the deadline
> for current contributors to have signed the new FPCA and are working to
> remove users who have signed the ICLA but not the FPCA from Fedora Groups
> where they must have signed the FPCA.
> 
> In looking through the list of groups that are affected, we noticed that
> many of the affected groups are fedorahosted groups.  Fedorahosted groups do
> not have a requirement to sign the FPCA from our side; the individual
> projects may make their contributors sign our contributor agreement, their
> own contributor agreement, or no contributor agreement at all.  In most
> cases, we believe that these hosted groups were created with a default of
> signing our contributor agreement and then never changed.
> 
> In order to minimize the disruption that Fedora switching from the ICLA to
> the FPCA will cause, we have removed the need for members of these groups to
> have signed the FPCA(list of groups attached).  This will allow those
> members to remain in the hosted groups unless futher action is taken.
> 
> If you do want to require all of your contributors to have a contributor
> agreement[1]_ with the Fedora Project, then you may follow these instructions
> for re-adding that as a requirement.
> 
> == Requiring that a Fedora contributor agreement has been signed ==
> 
> 1) Make sure that you, at least, have signed the FPCA (or another valid
>    contributor agreement) so there is at least one administrator in the
>    group who has signed the FPCA.
> 2) Go to https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/
> 3) Click the login link and login using your fas username and password
> 4) Click on the new ticket link
> 5) Create a ticket of Type: change
> 6) In the body of the ticket, state that you wish to have everyone who is
>    not in the cla_done group removed from this group and have future group
>    members sign the FPCA in order to be added.
> 7) Set the Component to "Hosted Projects"
> 8) Submit the ticket.
> 
> A member of the infrastructure team will process the request.
> 
> In the future these steps will likely be integrated into the Fedora Account
> System Web interface but currently the ticketing process is required as an
> infrastructure member has to do some steps manually.
> 
> _[1]: Note that this includes the CLA's signed by certain corporations on
> behalf of their employees contributing to the Fedora Project as well as the
> FPCA.
[...snip...]

> gitfedora-insight-theme

Given this project is by Fedora/for Fedora, it's probably a good idea
for us to require FPCA for contributions.  Thoughts on that?

> gitfedora-zikula
> gitfedora-zikula-theme

These are actually deprecated, so I'm not really concerned about
them.  Perhaps these should be retired as dead projects though?

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