On 04/03/2013 20:46, Terry Reedy wrote:

On 3/4/2013 11:36 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Brian Curtin <brian@python.org
<mailto:brian@python.org>> wrote:

    The full announcement is at

http://blog.python.org/2013/03/introducing-electronic-contributor.html,
    but a summary follows.

    We've now moved to an electronic Contributor License Agreement
form at
    http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ which will hopefully
    ease the signing and sending of forms for our potential contributors.
    The form shows the required fields whether you're signing as an
    individual or a representative of an organization, and removes the
    need to print, scan, fax, etc.

    When a new contributor fills in the form, they are emailed a copy of
    the form and asked to confirm the email address that they used (and
    received that copy at). Upon confirming, the signed form is sent to
    the PSF Administrator and filed away.

    The signature can either be generated from your typed name, or you
can
    draw or upload your actual written signature if you choose.


With this in place I would like to propose that all patches submitted to
bugs.python.org <http://bugs.python.org> must come from someone who has
signed the CLA before we consider committing it (if you want to be truly
paranoid we could say that we won't even look at the code w/o a CLA).

Either policy could be facilitated by tracker changes. In order to see
the file upload box, one must login and the tracker knows who has a CLA
on file (as indicated by a * suffix on the name). If a file is uploaded
by someone without, a box could popup with the link to the e-form and a
message that a CLA is required.

People already use the bug tracker as an excuse not to contribute, wouldn't this requirement make the situation worse?