[OpenStack-docs] Copying from wikipedia ;(

Lana Brindley openstack at lanabrindley.com
Mon Jul 13 01:27:56 UTC 2015


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On 13/07/15 10:54, Anita Kuno wrote:
> On 07/12/2015 08:34 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>> On 2015-07-12 14:50:32 +0200 (+0200), Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Jeremy, I'm just wondering whether we should add a line to the infra manual
>>> (
>>> http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#sign-the-appropriate-individual-contributor-license-agreement)
>>> stating what the CLA is about.
>>
>> That's probably okay, though summarizing legal documents is tricky
>> business (lawyers generally tell you that if the explanation of a
>> legal document is shorter than the document itself, then either it's
>> an insufficient explanation or the legal document being explained is
>> poorly-written).
>>
> 
> I'm actually finding that the time taken to inform people how to use
> common sense is an increasing contributor anti-pattern, not just to
> documentation.
> 
> I'm not offering an opinion about what-is-to-be-done, I'm saying that
> needed to do anything about behaviour which is in direct contravention
> of standard open source behaviour is really draining on our community as
> a whole.

I agree with you Anita, and that's why I'm happy with just calling out
the behaviour, mentioning it directly to the individual, and then
getting on with our lives. This doesn't happen often enough (at least,
that we know of) for us to make any significant changes. I'm happy with
a one line "don't plagiarise!" to cover this base.

L

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Lana Brindley
Technical Writer
Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
http://lanabrindley.com
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