An interesting conversation happened when I put up a review to pull in devstack-vagrant to gerrit from github - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/96835/ about what in gerrit requires the CLA. I specifically don't want the CLA required on this, as I've actually gotten organic contributors on github because people found it useful to show up and throw a patch my way (then came back because the round trip from patch submission to merge was very short). This in stark contrast to a conversation I had to have with a new contributor that wanted to patch the README on one of our projects, which I had to sheepishly point to our how to contribute page. Every single time I have one of these conversations I feel terrible, and that I should apologize profusely, because what we ask new contribs to go through is insane. As someone who's contributed to lots of Open Source on my spare time, a CLA is basically something that I'd never bother to touch. About 1/2 our dev tools in openstack-dev are not currently CLA required. It actually makes me wonder if any of them need to be. As these tools typically won't be part of an OpenStack release, it makes me wonder if we can drop the CLA on them entirely as a technical matter. For instance, why is there a CLA on devstack? Given that the board still seems stalled on approving a transition to the contribution framework the development community wants, I wonder if we can at least reduce the number of projects that are creating new developer friction by having a clearer view on what in gerrit we believe has to have the CLA, and ask all the other projects if they want to remove CLA enforcement. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net