[Project-managers] Contribution procedures

[Ted Ralphs]

Since I haven't heard any complaints, I will activate this tomorrow. Last
chance to chime in!

Ted

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:35 AM Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have been lax in enforcing our IP and licensing requirements since
> moving to Github. In SVN, we had pretty tight control over who could
> commit, but it is now possible to accept PRs from people who don't have
> write access. Just to remind you, our contribution guidelines are
> documented here <https://www.coin-or.org/contributing/code/> and here
> <https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinTLC/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/contribproc.pdf?format=raw> (the
> project management guidelines are a little out of date now, with the move
> to Github).
>
> The important part is that any significant/substantial contribution should
> be accompanied by a signed Contributor's Statement of Respect for
> Ownership <https://www.coin-or.org/management/forms/csro.pdf>. To make
> this process completely digital and to ease the burden of requesting
> contributors to sign such paperwork, we are planning to implement an
> automated system similar to that used by many bigger open source projects.
> Basically, anyone submitting a PR will automatically be asked to digitally
> sign a CSRO (this process will be quick and painless) if they haven't
> already done so).
>
> The plan at the moment is to use the system developed by SAP and also used
> by Microsoft itself, as described here:
>
> https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant
>
> The system has already been implemented for beta testing purposes in PuLP.
> It seems to work smoothly and requires just a click to agree after
> submitting the first PR.
>
> *I'm planning to activate this for all COIN-OR Github projects within the
> next week or so. If you have any concerns, let me know. We will also likely
> ask everyone who currently has paperwork on file or who has committed
> something recently and does not have paperwork on file to sign the
> agreement (again, just one click). Look for more on this later.*
>
> Let me know what you think and if you have any comments or concerns.
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
> --
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
> Lehigh University
> (610) 628-1280
> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
>


-- 
Dr. Ted Ralphs
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
(610) 628-1280
ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
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