Re: We need to change how code ownership works.

Ross Patterson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wolfgang Schnerring <[email protected]> writes:

> * Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> [2012-08-19 13:01]:
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I understand it, the legal lynchpin is that using Github
> (strongly) encourages merging code contributions of people that did not
> sign a contributor agreement -- which is the same situation as if
> someone attaches a patch file to a bug tracker ticket, but will be much
> more frequent and likely to happen.
>
> Could we, then, adopt a policy that we only merge pull requests (or
> whathaveyou) from people that have signed a contributor agreement?
> a) Tres, Jens: Would that work from a legal perspective?
> b) Ross, Alex: Would that still yield the advantages of the distributed
> source control model?

+10

Absolutely, seems like the best way to do this is to use the existing
zopefoundation github org and ensure that we only add members with
merge/push permission that have signed the agreement.

https://github.com/zopefoundation

Ross

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