IPZilla - a better gateway to Eclipse IP
When Eclipse committers want to incorporate a large third-party code contribution in their project, they need to fill out a Contribution Questionnaire (CQ). This questionnaire is then received by the Foundation’s IP team for review. Right now, it’s not pretty:
- the questionnaire info simply gets dumped into an e-mail. Welcome back to 1994.
- there’s a whole bunch of redundant Committer, Submitter and PMC fields. We already maintain our committers’ names, adresses and phone numbers in a database, so it’s silly to ask them again.
- it’s hard for everyone to track the status (and the evolution) of the whole process.
Enter IPZilla - the solution to all our problems (sort of) - which is what I’m working on now. By installing a second instance of Bugzilla (something all our committers are very familiar with), we can automate the CQ so that it automatically creates a new bug contribution into IPZilla that our committers will be able to track. IPZilla will be available via a committers-only section of our website called Committer Tools.
Having grown a brain since the original CQ design, I have connected IPZilla to both the Eclipse Bugzilla and Foundation Committer databases, allowing IPZilla project information to be pulled automatically from a trusted source. Also, the CQ will contain fewer fields, as the committer will be automatically identified and won’t be required to type their personal information.
I suspect IPZilla will be a great new tool for committers, project leads and the Foundation IP staff alike, reducing data redundancy and allowing for better workflow and process tracking.
Posted September 8th, 2006 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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