On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:14:58 +0200, martin@v.loewis.de wrote:
Zitat von Philip Jenvey <pjenvey@underboss.org>:
On Apr 22, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
You may wonder what changed between before and now: we (the PSF) now have a good management of the forms, thanks to them being listed in Roundup,
Where exactly is this listing?
It the asterisk ('*') shown next to the user's name, with the title text "Contributor form received".
I've been acting similar to Martin, for the same reason. It is now *really* easy to be considering a patch, see that the contributor you are having the discussion with doesn't have a * next to their name, and request that they submit a contributor agreement if they haven't already.
Pat updates the tracker promptly, and forms can be sent electronically (jpg image of signed form, pdf scan, etc), so the turnaround is now very quick, and you can pretty much(*) rely on the tracker status. That being the case I suppose it is now time for me to move to the next step and not apply (non-trivial) patches until the * appears.
--David
It is probably still the case that there are some long time contributors who do not have a * because their form submission predated Pat's management of the tracker status. For these we can either try to have Pat confirm the status against the paper files or, what is probably simpler, just have them send in a new form (which is less of a burden now that it can be done by email).