CLA requirements

[Karsten Wade]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:08 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:50, Karsten Wade wrote:
> >
> > IMO and AIUI, the question of, "To CLA or not to CLA?" is not really a
> > question.  The only valid question is, "How to CLA?"
> 
> I agree.  My only problem with the CLA is that it takes a lot of hoops to get 
> from 'I want to change this item in the wiki which I know more about' to 'I 
> now have my verified Fedora account, CLA has been signed and mailed back 
> correctly, I've now got a Wiki account, and I've gotten somebody to verify my 
> Fedora account has CLA done and has added me to the EditGroup'.  We lose most 
> people around 'what is a Fedora account?' step, or somewhere else along the 
> way when something doesn't just work perfectly (like gpg key doesn't match 
> email used, or CLA isn't getting verified correctly, or nobody is around to 
> add to EditGroup, or....)
> 
> We REALLY need to make it easier, while protecting ourselves still with the 
> CLA.

So, have we made any progress with the click-through CLA?

We need levels of hoops one goes through depending on the contribution
level.  Moving up in contributor level means stepping through one more
hoop.

Here is a proposed layout:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade/Drafts/CLAAcceptanceHierarchies

It defines four levels of contributor with increasing hoops to go
through for access gained.  The levels are designed to fit against
potential risk to the Fedora Project; the more you can do that can hurt
the project (on purpose or by accident), the more you have to go through
that proves you are responsible for your own actions.  Something like
that.

The idea of this table is to give the legal experts the knowledge that
we are aware of and mitigating for risk with our CLA acceptance model.
By defining the general-Wiki-editor as being able to touch lower risk
areas of content, we make it possible for those people to need a
lower-assurance level CLA such as a click-through.

What think ye?

- Karsten
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