[743] in athena10
Codifying policy and procedure for Athena10/debathena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Dec 18 18:03:08 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:01:15 -0500
To: athena10@mit.edu
I have continued chatting with jdreed, tabbott, and amb on the issues
of codifying the policy and procedure for dealing with submissions
from non MIT folk into Athena 10 and debathena. I think we've come to
closure on the following:
Outsiders will be instructed to join the debathena list, and to send
patches there. They will be pointed to submission guidelines that
tabbott will put onto the debathena site, that echo the Linux "Signed-
off-by" approach. Specifically outsiders will need to add a "Signed-
off-by" line when they submit a patch.
Regular commits happen as they have been but when a committer here
commits an oursider's patch, a "Signed-off-by" comment is added
naming the outsider
This does create a possible point of confusion because we're using
the "Signed-off-by"comment as an intellectual property audit trail
rather than in its original intent to do that AND to sign off on the
functionality. It's probably ok to just remind ourselves that the
committer in the SVN repository is the one who signed off on testing
and functionality at MIT. An alternative would be to just archive
the debathena list and not make the "Signed-off-by" comment in the
repository, but since SVN is our repository of record, it's probably
safer to abuse the english language a bit, and to put the
intellectual property audit there.
Going forward, debathena will be the primary list for technical
discussions. Athena10 will be a mix of technical and policy
discussions as we deploy the debathena developments as IS&T supported
products. Release-Team will be for the nitty-gritty boring IS&T
discussions that nobody should have to slog through :-) .
-Bill
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