Re: Getting repos moved over

[Adrian Cole <ad...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the summary, John.

If you are looking for a go ahead to help with that note to the secretary..
you have my vote!

Best,
-A

On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, 21:12 John D. Ament, <jo...@apache.org> wrote:

> I just added some comments to the board report about the "chicken and egg"
> problem we have with getting the repos moved over to the ASF github
> organization.
>
> Here's my take:
>
> - Most new podlings we receive are existing from corporation projects that
> have a clear chain of command that allows them to sign off on donating the
> code to the ASF.  Zipkin's not this, while there was a corporate backer a
> while ago that has long since transitioned.
> - Infra has indicated they're waiting on secretary to give the OK to
> migrate the repos.  First I'm seeing of a request like this, but ok.
> - Looking at the custody, most of the code is written by Adrian, who
> already has an ICLA on file.  We can probably identify which repos this
> isn't the case of and handle those ad-hoc.
>
> So if we want to push it, I'm willing to send an email to secretary
> requesting that they acknowledge receipt of ICLAs for most of the
> committers on list who have provided some significant amount of code, this
> way we can move forward with getting the repositories moved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>