Re: FOSDEM discussions

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 26.02.2008 15:16, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Matthias Saou wrote: >>> Xavier Lamien wrote : >>>> Regarding FAS, there still seems to be more work required : >>>>> - Rebrand all of the web interface (to remove "Fedora" where it doesn't >>>>> make sense to have it) - minor >>>>> - Check and update the agreement text sent by email. >>>>> - Make the agreement signing work (as it seems to be sent by email, >>>>> thus processed by some script from there?) >>>>> - Probably a little more fixes... testing will say... >>>> That should be fix at the end of this week, will do some work around. >>>> If you guys have some ideas about an potential theme, feel free to post. >>> But if we need to redirect an email address to have sent emails be >>> piped to a script on a server which has access to the FAS in order to >>> check the GPG signature... it's going to be slightly harder and you >>> will most likely need me to configure some stuff on the email side. >>> If we don't really care about the agreement, and only want to verify >>> the user's GPG signature, then we could short-circuit that part of the >>> signup and just let the user upload a signed file through the FAS web >>> interface. >> I think this is the best idea, the CLA makes no sense for rpmfusion, as the CLA >> gives a license to an legal instance to use the code contributed, but there is >> no legal instance, so one party to the CLA is the contributer, but who is going >> to be the other party in the rpmfusion case? > > Hmmm. You have a point. But on the other hand it might be wise to do > some easy CLA like "You hereby agree that all you contributions to > rpmfusion.org are licensed under <foo> if not otherwise specified > (implicit or explicit)" (foo=BSD?) Otherwise we might run into the same > problems we had in EPEL recently ("Can I safely take a spec from EPEL, > modify it and use it in my Repo?"). > Sounds like a plan, this also has the advantage that we can keep all the logic surrounding the CLA currently in fas.

Hans