Update the TC responsibilities w.r.t. donations #594
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This change is as discussed at a GC meeting in December. Happy to take feedback and/or discuss the proposal if the TC is concerned about feasibility. cc @open-telemetry/technical-committee @open-telemetry/governance-committee
bhs
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alolita,
bogdandrutu,
ccaraman,
dyladan,
lizthegrey,
mtwo,
sarahnovotny,
SergeyKanzhelev,
tedsuo and
yurishkuro
as code owners
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@bhs +1 to outlining how large donations are handled by OpenTelemetry.
It may also be useful to add some detail about
- how to contact the TC when submitting a large code donation
- outlining requirements such as an agreement to change of copyright to reflect the OpenTelemetry Authors and code license being compatible with Apache 2.0.
- Code maintenance requirements
Also, move things around a bit to make them easier to find (hopefully).
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@alolita great suggestions. I updated this PR to include more guidance (per your comment) and moved some of that guidance into |
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I can theoretically merge this given the approvals, but I changed the PR in meaningful ways since those approvals came through. Would love an explicit 👍 from an approver before this gets merged. |
CONTRIBUTING.md
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| All donated code requires a license compatible with the Apache Software License | ||
| 2.0 (ASL 2), and donated code will require a change of copyright to reflect the |
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Nit: I have never seen abbreviation "ASL 2" before. Not sure what the purpose of using it here is.
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interesting – I have seen it, but I am also glad to remove it :) Will do.
This change is as discussed at a GC meeting in December. Happy to take feedback and/or discuss the proposal if the TC is concerned about feasibility. cc @open-telemetry/technical-committee @open-telemetry/governance-committee