Eclipse Contributor License Agreements Are Live
The Eclipse Contributor License Agreement is now live. This means that contributors can execute a CLA, and get theirs on file. Committers will be able to use the PMI (project management infrastructure) to look up whether a particular contributor has a CLA on file. So starting immediately, you will be able to refer to a CLA rather than asking the “three questions” on a bug.
The Eclipse Foundation Contributor’s Certificate of Origin has also been published, and contributors and committers should start using the signed-by option with git.
In order for a contributor to sign their CLA, they need to do the following:
- Obtain and Eclipse Foundation userid. Anyone who currently uses our Bugzilla or Gerrit systems already has one of those. If they don’t, they need to register.
- Login into the projects portal, select “My Account”, and then the “Contributor License Agreement” tab.
After the Kepler release — Thursday, June 27th — we have started automatically enforcing CLAs. This means that every time a contribution arrives at one of our git repositories (including Gerrit), the author field will be checked to ensure that there is a CLA or Committer Agreement on file for the author. If there isn’t, the contribution will be rejected.
Progress!
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