Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:20:13 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org> Subject: kyua and Google Contributor License Agreement Message-ID: <CAG=rPVeUkXB8gQG6E23WoORW2iJn1EVyeFw3DkLDmiSYZA8Hiw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, The kyua test framework which is used to run all the tests in FreeBSD under /usr/tests/ is available on github: https://github.com/jmmv/kyua/ However, if someone submits a bugfix or enhancement, Julio requires that they sign a Google Contributor License Agreement with Google. I understand that this is necessary, but it is quite unfortunate. I know a number of folks at EMC/Isilon who have walked away from contributing fixes to kyua because of the Google CLA. I have signed the Google CLA for kyua through an online submission form in September 2014, but sometime this year, Google changed their system and lost a bunch of previously submitted CLA signatures (!!) including mine. Honestly, I was kind of pissed, and wasn't motivated to sign the form again. This link: https://github.com/jmmv/kyua/wiki/Contributing doesn't seem to go anywhere, so I can't even figure out the steps to sign the CLA. So we are in a state now where good folks who want to contribute (EMC/Isilon) lose interest because of needing to sign paperwork. We also have instance where random folks on the Internet try to contribute fixes, but then the fixes are in limbo, because the contributors never bother to sign the Google CLA: https://github.com/jmmv/kyua/pulls De facto, what has resulted is that Julio is the sole person who can work on kyua and enhance or fix it. This is really sad, and a major buzzkill for an open source project. kyua is good stuff too, and very helpful for FreeBSD, which makes it even sadder. Is there anything we can do to get out of this dead-end? -> get Google to remove the need for people to sign the Google CLA? -> fork the kyua code, and relicense it so it doesn't need the Google CLA? -> other? Julio has done great work, but it is never good to have a single point of failure for something as important as this. -- Craig
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