Re: No ICLA for some authors in Sun's JAXP 1.3 donation

I don't have a particular opinion on the author tags; it sounds like 
we're happy enough with the code at this point.

In terms of voting in new committers, any ASF community - xml-commons 
included - would be happy to consider voting in anyone who shows an 
active interest in working in the project over a period of time.  
Participation on the mailing lists and code patches are the kinds of 
things I'd look for.  In general, I would not generally nominate a new 
committer myself just because they (and their employer's team of 
developers) just donated a chunk of code to an existing community. 

- Shane (catching up on old mail...)

Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:

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> On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
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>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
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>>> On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
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>>>>> What I would do is just remove the names from the code, and in the
>>>>> commit message, note that you are removing as they are internal Sun
>>>>> committers, that their work was done at Sun before the 
>>>>> contribution was
>>>>> made, and you are removing them to eliminate the confusion that 
>>>>> arose.
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>>>> I would prefer that my @author stay intact.
>>>> I have just sent in an ICLA.
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>>> It doesn't matter for this case - the existence of the author tags 
>>> reflects work that happened before the software was donated to 
>>> Apache, so from a legal standpoint, it's moot.  I know this may come 
>>> across as harsh, and I don't mean to be - the use of author tags is 
>>> a community issue (and a generally contentious one!)  and one that 
>>> the ASF board has recommended against.  However it is up to the 
>>> individual project to decide how author tags are handled.
>>>
>> My opinion would be not to remove the author tag. Author tag shows 
>> the contribution of a person and is a good contact point in case any 
>> one needs to clarifiy certain behavior. Actually it would be good if 
>> Jeff can be made a committer as part of the code grant because of his 
>> contribution in so many files. His becoming committer  would also be 
>> good for the ASF project and the community.
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> That's entirely up to the community :)
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> geir
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>> - Neeraj
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>>> Personally, I'd find it utterly baffling to find an author tag in 
>>> the file with no related commit by that author.  An alternative to 
>>> just erasing them, in order to preserve that information  in some 
>>> way, would be to move it to the NOTICE file for the project?
>>>
>>> An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a 
>>> committer.  you do have the paperwork done :)
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