[python-committers] Contrib forms

[Petri Lehtinen]

"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-agreements