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Re: [iot-pmc] Small patch exceptions?
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Yes, that’s the way I sometimes did it as well. Creating a PR myself and closing the one of the contributor. Feels a bit like stealing his contribution and not paying him any attribution. So I would prefer other solutions to the problem.
> On 29. Aug 2018, at 10:55, Hudalla Kai (INST/ECS4) <kai.hudalla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 11:06 +0200, Kai Kreuzer wrote:
>> Dear PMC colleagues,
>>
>> This is probably a noob question, but I think to remember that in the past
>> there was something like a „small patch exception“, which allowed to accept
>> typo fixes and single line comment/documentation changes to be accepted without
>> requiring an ECA from the contributor.
>>
>> I am not sure whether I only dreamt of that exception, because I cannot find
>> anything about it in the committer handbook nor anywhere on the web…
>>
>> I’m just asking as I am not sure how to correctly handle https://github.com/ecl
>> ipse/smarthome/pull/611717 - asking the person to add a sign-off, register an
>> Eclipse account and sign the ECA just to change an „an“ to an „and“ is imho the
>> safest way to scare him off and never ever see him again…
>>
>
> Well, you can still "take over" the fixing from the contributor, i.e. fix it
> yourself. If the "prospect" wants to contribute something more profound later on,
> then he will, of course, need to sign the ECA. But in that case, it would also be
> justified to do so ...
>
>
>> So do we have any exceptional rules that I am not aware of and that can be
>> applied here? How do you handle such situations?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kai
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