On 2015-02-05 21:26:22 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Roy wrote:
I'm reopening this issue because earlier today, I was trying to read the Individual CLA but I couldn't find a copy anywhere. I went as far as registering on Launchpad and on Gerrit where I was asked to agree to that ICLA without ever getting the opportunity to actually read the text, which is quite problematic to say the least.
Gerrit displays the text of the agreement on the page where you choose whether or not to agree to it. When you click "New Contributor Agreement" and select the radio button for ICLA it expands a box immediately below it to display the entirety of the text of the agreement with a heading "Review the agreement" before you can enter the words "I AGREE" below. If it did not do this in your browser, that's definitely a bug. I concur that for a legal document this is still suboptimal and people would probably like to refer to it outside of our contributor workflow, certainly long before going through the trouble of signing up for a contributor account only to discover that they disagree with the terms and would prefer not to be associated with our project.
Maybe it's somewhere and I just didn't see it, then it should be more obvious.
Yep, when we refactored a lot of the new contributor walkthrough documentation we seem to have linked to the agreement page on the assumption that people were getting there through the process of signing up for a new account, so we've missed an opportunity to link to https://review.openstack.org/static/cla.html (which is public but obviously not well-indexed by search engines). I'll get some more strategic links in place to make this easier for everyone to find. -- Jeremy Stanley