Re: [PDO] Re: PDO 2: Request for Comments

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 21:29 -0500, "David Coallier" wrote:
> 3) again on article 37, this is fun
> "However, patches from non-CLA signers must be treated carefully.  If you
> want to use their code, you can ask the bug reporter to sign the CLA and
> they can grant their patch retroactively.  We did this regularly in the
> ZF project. "
> again, ZF Project is a project from a company, not PHP.
> 
> But hey, this is fun, that means that someone cannot send in a valid
> patch unless he signs the CLA... hmm sounds plain bad because some
> people simply "don't" sign the CLAs.

I guess most people don't really read (and understand) the paper they
have to sign. They simply assume "hey, they won't do anything bad" and
sign (I'm no saying somebody would do something bad) ... as in: Do you
read the thing you sign when paying with a credit card?

Additionally when contributing to ZF I'm contributing to the project
from somebody else so I play by their rules. Whereas here we're talking
about changing the rules for a project where most of us are involved for
quite some years now and where everybody played according to the
existing rules. ("Improving" the rules from time to time can be a good
thing, and i think they are changing all the time, but it makes it
harder to compare with another project)

johannes