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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">This seemed appropriate to forward here . . .to keep in mind while formulating a GeoMoose version . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jody Garnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cameron Shorter<br>
<b>Cc:</b> incubator@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Incubator] Committer Responsibility Guidelines Examples?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#A0A0A8">On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 7:48 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The key element I'm looking for is a documented process, which is part of the project's supporting web pages, describing how the project will ensure future contributions to the code base will follow license guidelines.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Agreed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The link to the geotools project you reference below does this by requiring new developers to sign a code contribution agreement before committing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alas that is only step 1…an important step I admit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second step (for GeoTools) is to capture when new code is subjected to a review prior to being included in the library.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- <a href="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/supported.html">http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/supported.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(This covers several things, including IP check, and importantly a documentation requirement)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jody Garnett<o:p></o:p></p>
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