[Python-Dev] Contributor agreements (was Re: DRAFT: python-dev summary for 2006-04-01 to 2006-04-15) (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 29 22:23:01 CEST 2006

Contributor agreements

If you're listed in the Python acknowledgments, and you haven't signed a contributor agreement, please submit one as soon as possible. Note that this includes even the folks that have been around forever -- the PSF would like to be as careful as possible on this one.

I believe I did submit something some time ago, but I am not positive, and even if I did, I don't know whether it was a recent enough version. So I suggest that

.. Python acknowledgments: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Misc/ACKS

put a star besides names for which there is a recent enough form. Another problem with that list is that it apparently includes people who have not actually contributed text or code in the distribution and who therefor do not (?) need to send in an agreement.

Also, it says 'not in any useful order', which is weird, because it is alphabetical, which is quite useful for finding a particular name (or not ;-).

.. contributor agreement: http://www.python.org/psf/contrib-form-python.html

By itself, this link is inadequate since there is a blank for 'Initial License' with no choices indicated. So the summary needs a link to an instruction page also. The form is also a bit confusing since it appears to talk about future contributions but the last line tacked on to the bottom refers to the past. If it means both, then why not say so in the main text in a way that non-lawyers can understand?

Terry Jan Reedy

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