[OpenLayers-Dev] CLA in svn

[Tim Schaub]

On 12/7/10 5:13 PM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
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> On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:11 AM, ext Roald de Wit wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Identity theft is a matter of concern these days. Wouldn't making people's signatures publicly available add to this?
>
> This is the reason that CLAs are not in SVN: both signatures (where they are
> provided) and addresses seemed like information that we would be better off
> not publishing.
>
> I don't have a better suggestion right now, but that was the original reason.

Can we control access?

I'm sure I can dig around the OSGeo machine and find out for myself - so 
I apologize for asking before trying.

Limiting a portion of the repo to the PSC seems like a sensible measure.

Tim

> -- Chris
>
>> Regards, Roald
>>
>> On 07/12/10 04:51, Tim Schaub wrote:
>>> I think it would make sense to maintain digital copies of contributor agreements in our repository.  The record keeping process is a bit opaque to me at this point, and I think it would benefit us in the future to have a more accessible place for these documents.  I assume we forward signed copies to OSGeo, but maintaining them next to the code makes sense to me as well.
>>>
>>> Going forward, would others be in favor of maintaining digital copies of CLAs in subversion?
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
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