Re: Streamlining CLA process

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On Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Rebecca Hauck wrote:

> 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 (mailto: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 20:16:45 UTC