| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] The "new user -> ECA -> signed-off by" workflow is broken |
We at Xtext see a similar result, especially with changes done
via github web.
Telling people to clone and signoff for a trivial fix often leads
to omitting the PR
and recreate the change ourselves.
- ay: You did not sign the ECA.
- 21% of the contributors are confused or don't care and drop off. They say: You merge it for me (which we can't do because it is not our code.)
- The rest goes to the website to sign the ECA.
- It turns out you need to create an Eclipse account first, so another 53% does not bother. Why is this? People have a Github account; can't we work with that?
- The ones left make another change in their PR because that is the only way to retrigger the checks
- Eclipse checks say "no signed-off by" footer in the commit message. This is not needed because all information is already in the commit. IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!
- So the contributor has to REDO ALL THE COMMITS IN THE PR unless they are some git wizard that can update each commit comment: 25% says "Nah."
1% left of the 77% we still have after step 3