Removing cla Prerequisite from some hosted groups

[Peter Borsa]

Hi!

I agree with Paul, so +1 to require FPCA for contributions into Insight theme.
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Peter



On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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