On 28 Aug 2001 kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> An idea for making this work better than it does with the FSF (where
> long delays in getting copyright papers from contributors are the
> norm): send people self-addressed stamped envelopes and printouts of
> the papers to sign. This makes it much more likely that they will be
> returned in a finite amount of time. :-)
and accept *faxes*! The FSF is playing it safe, even at the expense of
contributors, because it fully expects to have to fight the court case one
day. It's hard to imagine a violation of SVN's license, liberal as it is,
so the greater flexibility of faxed signatures should definitely be in.
and provide an easy way to see the *status* of the paperwork. many FSF
contributors sent in their paperwork and then waited around
for a confirmation notice or some such before finishing their patches.
No notice is ever sent by the FSF, and so people assume that the paperwork
got lost, or something, and eventually give up on their getting patches
committed.
Finally: with an adequate version control system, it ought to be possible
to commit patches *immediately* pending paperwork. The commit can always
be reverted if the paperwork doesn't come through. You should be careful
to specially flag/lock further modification of lines where a patch is
still 'pending' to avoid messy reverts in the abort case, but such a lock
could provide a powerful incentive to all involved to deal with the
paperwork expeditiously. You don't want to leave potential contributors
hanging in paperwork limbo while their enthusiasm drains.
And the implementation of this system with SVN may be an excellent test
case for the flexibility of the access control mechanism.
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