On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote: > > Why would we allow people to not sign the CLA to write for the relnotes? > Don't we want contributors of Fedora to be our contributors for the > relnotes? Especially seeing as how this single document gets wedged > into every release and is posted or referred to in many other > announcements (i.e. high visibility). Please re-read the below funnel+filter, I think it addresses your questions. The CLA in this idea is required at a certain point in the contribution. Realize that if we could remove the CLA requirement for the rest of the wiki, that would be a good thing. We then need to deal with what happens when we want to convert that content to a guide, how much it is, etc. Since we have this already for the relnotes but in a centralized set of pages, perhaps we can be clever about it. - Karsten > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 22:22 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > > > One difference going in to the future is that we have worked on having > > improved editing via the Docs CMS (Zikula), and I can foresee Docs > > moving most of this editing to the improved wysiwyg environment in > > Zikula. We could enact a different type of contribution policy for > > the Docs CMS than for the wiki, although I think we'd want to focus on > > keeping the barriers the same (i.e., no CLA per-se for the relnotes > > writing part of the CMS with a deeper reaching policy?) > > > > Perhaps we have a funnel+filter approach like this for any guide > > written on the wiki, from Release Notes to User Guide. Let's take the > > release notes beats as a use case: > > > > * Consider a new namespace ([[Relnote:]]?) if that helps us sequester > > that content better. > > > > * Make it clear that editing the relnotes on the wiki beyond a certain > > level may require a contribution agreement. > > > > * Minor edits and additions that are not copyrightable are considered > > safe for conversion from wiki to CLA-covered guides in an SCM. > > > > * Major edits and contributions require i) the editor actually have a > > CLA with Fedora Project, and ii) they agree to be tracked/included > > as an author. > > > > * When we include relnotes content, the Docs Team needs to add the > > steps of attributing contributions that are copyrightable. This is > > done by identifying the changes via the wiki history tool, then > > including a brief description and permanent URI for that history > > change in the SCM commit; ideally, one commit per attribution in > > some reasonable fashion. This allows tracking back for any future > > copyright requirements. > > > > Wow, that's a bit of extra work. Is it worth it? It might be > > necessary regardless. Automating the last step in some manner would > > be a good idea. > > > > - Karsten > -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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