Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] The "new user -> ECA -> signed-off by" wo

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Architecture Council discussed this at the most recent meeting - see notes https://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council/Meetings/Meeting_Notes - below I quote the relevant part:

• 'Signed Off By' requirements (from cross platform list topic, https://bugs.eclipse.org/558653)
  • Work started at the Board to revitalize discussion. There is sufficient evidence out there that it should be possible to remove the requirement.
  • No ETA yet. Discussion requires convincing lawyers.
  • Architecture Council unanimously agrees that this needs to go

Some replies to recent emails on cross-project-issues:

> Basically, it means that the technology is there to always require it and to switch it off for committers.

Yes - that is what the ECA checker does. I assume once the board approves the change it will be a trivial change for the webmaster team to make to remove the signed-off-by check.

> Is that a hard and fast rule everywhere? Because I get forced to sign on the jetty.git website repository on git.eclipse.org

IIUC the websites (like simrel) are in a middle state where non-committers have write access to the repo, but as those people with write access aren't "committers" according to the EDP, the signed-off-by is needed. 

Complicating that further (again IIUC) until the new ECA checker (https://github.com/EclipseFdn/git-eca-rest-api) was written, commits to the websites and simrel repos did not check for committer state, but rather write permission state to determine if Signed-off-by was needed.

I hope that the Board & relevant legal team(s) are able to move this forward.

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 15:19, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Right! I did not know that was an option. Basically, it means that the technology is there to always require it and to switch it off for committers.

Al we need is the final last option to switch it off for people that have signed the contributor agreement.

Cheers,

Wim

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:09 PM Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As per the bug, Signed-off-by is NOT required for committers on that project. You are a committer on that project.

s/Yay/Boo/

On 2021-03-15 3:05 p.m., Wim Jongman wrote:

I have seen that the BIRT project does NOT require the dreaded "signed-off by:" footer. Yay, maybe it is already working:

e.g. https://github.com/eclipse/birt/pull/616

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 5:20 PM Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 16:47, Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I added an action item to discuss on AC call next week.

Thanks Jesse. I also added the other two items in the thread to the list.

For visibility, the bug (with further details) around "Signed-off by" is:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/558653

This requires change in IP policy. Nothing the AC can decide but we can capture our wish in our meeting notes.

For the others I am collecting ideas (preferably bug numbers that should be prioritized) that we can give to Denis & team.

-Gunnar

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