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Definitely an improvement - thanks!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
wrote:

> On 09/07/2014 04:22 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Fair - I'm obviously better positioned than most to make that
> > assessment. If that is your goal, though, I think you should make that
> > explicit in the documentation: instead of pointing at the CCLA and then
> > making the CCLA painful/irritating to sign (which makes you look,
> > frankly, amateur), you should say bluntly "if this is your corporation's
> > first time contributing, you should put your corporate lawyers or
> > product managers in touch with corporate at openstack.org
> > <mailto:corporate at openstack.org>, who can help explain the process,
> > point them at appropriate documentation (including this CCLA[link]) ..."
> > etc.
>
> I amended the wiki page. Now it reads:
>
>    If you are contributing on behalf of a company or organization, you
>    still need to sign the Individual CLA above but your company's
>    corporate lawyer (or similarly high in rank) also needs to sign
>    the Corporate Contributor License Agreement providing a list of
>    people authorized to commit code to OpenStack. Request a printable
>    copy by emailing the OpenStack Foundation.
>
> Hopefully this makes it better, until we have a more self-service system.
>
> /stef
>



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