[python-committers] Contrib forms

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Apr 26 16:18:21 CEST 2012


Thanks, David. It's nice to see that the PSF does sometimes manage to make things easier for the devs - without you the whole exercise would be pretty pointless!

S

On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:38 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:14:58 +0200, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>> 
>> Zitat von Philip Jenvey <pjenvey at 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).
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