RE: [cdt-dev] Patch proposal forbugzilla154854-gdbconsoleenhancements

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi CDT committers,

Currently, the "significant contribution" limit seems to
be at 250 lines of code, including configuration files: See
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf

I'm not exactly sure what rules you follow on CDT,
but for Target Management we have come up with some
nice guidelines:
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/development/committer_howto.php

Basically we ask contriutors to add some legal statement
like "I wrote this myself" to the bugzilla entry upfront, 
in order to clarify the Legal things without having extra
E-mail exchange.

Regarding PMC approval, Bjorn has blogged that a single
PMC member's opinion may stand for the entire PMC:
http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2006/06/pmc-question.html

This means its sufficient if you send an E-Mail to the
Tools PMC Mailing list, asking OK to apply the contribution,
and you get at least one PMC member's OK (that would be
Doug S I guess). Other PMC members can veto this later,
then you'd have to remove the patch again, but this is
really unlikely I guess.

But as I said, each project has its own guidelines, and
DougS is your master -- I just thought that giving you
the two links above might be helpful.

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ploett, Norbert
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:47 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: AW: [cdt-dev] AW: [cdt-patch] Patch proposal 
> forbugzilla154854-gdbconsoleenhancements
> 
> Davide / (Mikhail),
> 
> I also have this 100-line rule in the back of my head and I 
> assume that you will need to fill in the 
> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ContributionQuestionnairePart1-v1.0.php 
> 
> This implies that we must get PMC approval for your 
> contribution, I'll have yet to find out how this is obtained 
> (anyone knows?).
> 
> I also think that somehow you must prove that your company 
> lets you put your contributions under the EPL (as you stated 
> you would in the headers of the new files ...)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Norbert