in defense of "contributor agreements" or whatever they are called nowadays
in defense of "contributor agreements" or whatever they are called nowadays
Posted Apr 13, 2011 17:34 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: in defense of "contributor agreements" or whatever they are called nowadays by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks
"What ifs" when it comes to trying to estimate the number of people who refused to engage because of assignment is difficult to use effectively as a rhetorical tool. We don't have a reliable measure or even estimate on that. From a strategic messaging standpoint I shun making that particular argument unless I can find at least one example of a specific contribution submitted in good faith which was turned away because an assignment wasn't agreed to. I have such historic examples for other codebases that require assignment. I don't have one handy for upstart.
-jef
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