Re: Python Software Foundation - Jython CLA

Jim, Ewa, Ernest, hi.

(Also, congratulation to Ernest.)

" ... there is currently no way to designate whether the CLA is for Jython."

There is equally no way to designate that the CLA is for CPython. And no 
way to designate that the CLA is for some other PSF artefact that is 
not, itself, CPython or Jython.

I think this is deliberate, and a good thing, so my conclusion is 
opposite to that in the thread below.

We're not simply re-using the design of a PSF form. Contributors to 
Jython give their work to the PSF, and the PSF lets  everyone else use 
it. (https://hg.python.org/jython/file/tip/LICENSE.txt). If we then want 
to contribute elsewhere in the PSF, as I have in a small way, there is 
no additional barrier.

It would be convenient if, whatever one contributed to the PSF, 
submitting a CLA didn't involve signing up to bugs.python.org when all 
other interaction is via GitHub. But as that's easily done, and there's 
a comprehensible reason, I don't worry too much it will put people off. 
When you make this even simpler, could you make sure that it still works 
for Jython?

We do need to get rid of the misleading Jython-specific form, though. I 
signed that one too, in the day, before being corrected. I assume there 
was a good reason for it at one time, but I can only speculate what it was.

Jeff

Jeff Allen

On 16/06/2018 19:04, Jim Baker wrote:
> Ewa,
>
> This sounds like a great plan. We have recently seen this come up with 
> some confusion with on boarding new contributors. Or myself, since 
> this process is not something I think about on a regular basis either. 
> Thanks for asking!
>
> I have added other Jython devs to this email in case there's something 
> else we should be looking at.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:48 PM Ewa Jodlowska <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hey Jim -
>
>     I hope you are doing well!
>
>     Ernest is working on updating the EchoSign widget that runs the
>     Python CLA. We noticed that the Jython documentation points to our
>     CLA (https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/) but there
>     is currently no way to designate whether the CLA is for Jython.
>
>     If the Jython folks are interested, we can can create Jython its
>     own CLA and have it housed at its own URL.
>
>     Let us know your thoughts on this or if we should reach out to
>     someone else.
>
>     Best wishes,
>
>     Ewa Jodlowska
>     Director of Operations
>
>     Ernest W. Durbin III
>     Director of Infrastructure
>
>

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