[Python-Dev] Introducing Electronic Contributor Agreements (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Mar 5 22:06:17 CET 2013

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:22:07 -0500, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Baptiste Carvello <_ _devel at baptiste-carvello.net> wrote:

> Le 05/03/2013 04:13, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : > > Mark Lawrence writes: > > > > > People already use the bug tracker as an excuse not to contribute, > > > wouldn't this requirement make the situation worse? > > > > A failure to sign the CLA is already a decision not to contribute to > > the distribution > > my 2 cents as an occasional contributor of minor patches: I understand > that the scarce resource is reviewer time, so I would definitely accept > to sign the CLA with my next contribution before a reviewer invests his > time in it. > > However, please don't make the popup too pushy. I abhor websites which > push people into entering legally binding agreements "with one click" > without the opportunity to study them carefully (personnally, this would > not be a problem as I already know what the CLA is about, but other > contributors might not). > > Also, please keep the possibility to use the old paper-based signing > procedure. I for one don't consider so-called "electronic signatures" > based on email address verification (as opposed to real crypto) to be as > good as a handwritten signature, and I don't want to legitimize them by > using them. > At the bottom of the CLA page there are instructions on how to still use the paper form.

Then there also needs to be a way to ACK the popup so that it never shows up again. Which we should have anyway. Ideally that would be tied to the account and not to, say, a browser cookie.

--David

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