"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
As some may have been noticed, I started urging contributors more intensely to submit contributor forms before accepting their patches. I encourage all committers to do the same, for non-trivial changes.
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, and thanks to Pat (Campbell) keeping track of all forms that we receive. So we (the committers) are now in a position to actually verify that we have a contrib form received before deciding whether or not to commit a patch.
The devguide [1] currently says:
It’s unlikely bug fixes will require a Contributor Licensing
Agreement unless they touch a lot of code. For new features, it is
preferable to ask that the contributor submit a signed CLA to the
PSF as the associated comments, docstrings and documentation are
far more likely to reach a copyrightable standard.Is this still the case? How about new features that are quite small? (e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue14809 whose patch adds a few constants from a newer RFC)
If we are to require a signed agreement from smaller changes too, the devguide should be updated.
[1] http://docs.python.org/devguide/committing.html#contributor-licensing-agreem...