Re: [iot-pmc] Small patch exceptions?

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kai,

I have the same feeling about not paying attribution. I also remember
something about taking very small changes like you mention, but cannot
find a reference to it.

Regards,

Roger

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 10:01, Kai Kreuzer <kai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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