[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-33) Apache License explicitly says a Contribution is a Contribution unless marked "Not a Contribution", however the Development Process page and Jira tracker have confusing text and do the opposit

["Assaf Arkin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-33?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12614792#action_12614792 ] 

Assaf Arkin commented on LEGAL-33:
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JIRA is often used by contributors who have not signed the CLA and not read the development process guidelines. They find a bug, they send a patch, they do not bother acquainting themselves with all the intricacies of the Apache process.  You want their express permission, so the contribute option should be off by default, otherwise, did they really mean it, or just didn't read the whole page through?

(And we do on occasion get attachments that are not for inclusion in the code, e.g. stack traces or screenshots)

But as a committer, I find it annoying if I have to go through approval each time I contribute something.  I signed the CLA, read all the relevant text, follow the discussions with interest, etc.  If I didn't mean to contribute something, and that hasn't happened so far, I'll say so explicitly.



> Apache License explicitly says a Contribution is a Contribution unless marked "Not a Contribution", however the Development Process page and Jira tracker have confusing text and do the opposit 
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>                 Key: LEGAL-33
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-33
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: David Crossley
>         Attachments: patch-legal-process-draft-contributions.txt
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> Current draft at http://www.apache.org/legal/drafts/process-draft.html and the text/statement of a Jira Add-Attachment page are not clear, and are the opposite of the Apache License.
> There are various view in this thread:
>  Re: Publishing the process page
>  http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200807.mbox/%3c20080709030200.GA4223@igg.indexgeo.com.au%3e
> The relevant sections of the license are copied to this posting:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200807.mbox/%3c487435AC.5060500@rowe-clan.net%3e
> Even if we remain with the current back-to-front radio buttons on our Jira, then we should have clear explanations there, and on the new "Development Process" page.

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