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On 10/20/2013 06:00 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> I know the Foundation's got work underway to improve the affiliate
> map from the member database, so it might be possible to have some
> sort of automated job which proposes changes to a copyright holders
> list in each project by running a query with the author and date of
> each commit looking for new affiliations. That seems like it would
> be hacky, fragile and inaccurate, but probably still more reliable
> than expecting thousands of contributors to keep that information up
> to date when submitting patches?

To solve the problem for future contributions (if we agree there is a
problem), wouldn't it be simpler to add one line to the commit saying
something like "Copyright ownership by: Small Corp"? This can be
semi-automatic by hackers (they only need to keep it current). We may
even check automatically at the gate the validity of that assertion
against the (to be built) database of Corporate CLAs.

For past contributions and to solve immediately the issue with
troveclient I guess we can use the data we have from activity
board/gitdm/stackalytics. You can contact me offline, of course.

/stef


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