OpenJDK Community Bylaws: Final Draft

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2011/6/10 17:13 -0700, schlosna at gmail.com:
> As a casual participant on various OpenJDK lists for the past few
> years, I'm interested in contributing more to OpenJDK in my free time.
> The OpenJDK Community Bylaws do offer some clarification for
> participating, but I do have some comments and questions regarding the
> process of becoming an OpenJDK Contributor. I sent a scanned copy of
> the OCA to sun_ca at sun.com back in January, but never received a
> response. Potential contributors may be dissuaded from spending time
> contributing if they do not receive a response.

Hmm, sorry about that.  I'll ask someone to look into it.

>                                                 The OCA FAQ [1] states
> "You should check with the project you intend to contribute where your
> OCA should be sent." Is this process described in "How to contribute"
> [2] still the correct way to submit an OCA for OpenJDK contribution?

Yes.

> In section 2 of the OpenJDK Community Bylaws, would it make sense to
> reference the list of valid OpenJDK Contributors [3] [4]? Should the
> Contributor paragraph describe the process for submitting a signed
> Oracle Contributor Agreement?

I don't think that pointers into the user database or detailed process
instructions belong in the Bylaws.  Things like that can change from time
to time, and we want to be able to change them without having to ratify a
new version of the Bylaws -- which is a fairly expensive undertaking.

- Mark