Re: Streamlining CLA process

I've created a PR with the same changes in the csswg-test repo:

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-test/pull/65


Peter, can you please take a look and merge accordingly?

Thanks!
-Rebecca

On 7/30/13 7:32 AM, "Tobie Langel" <tobie@w3.org> wrote:

>Hi folks, 
>
>One of the pain points of accepting external contributions in the
>web-platform-tests repository has been dealing with the CLA (and the
>infamous Grant Type II form which requires a W3C account).
>
>Thanks to the help of Rigo and Wendy, we were able to streamline the
>process to its bear minimum.
>
>The plan is to piggyback on GitHub's built-in Contributing Guidelines
>mechanism[1] to prominently display a link to the CLA when the
>contributor makes a pull request. The CLA states that by contributing to
>the repository you are giving the necessary rights to W3C.
>
>There's a pull request[2] for these changes which should be pulled in
>shortly.
>
>Of course the documentation we're working on will also reflect these
>changes.
> 
>Thanks,
>
>--tobie
>---
>[1]: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
>[2]: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pull/261
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:32:48 UTC