RFR: Section on sponsoring [v2]

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 21:47:56 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Isn't that already covered by the last sentence?
>> "Please note that you don't need to sign an OCA if you work at Oracle or a company which has negotiated an equivalent agreement."
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> Yes but by the time you get to that last sentence (if you read that far) you've already been told numerous times you should sign the OCA. I suggest in the first paragraph that this:
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>> and if you haven't yet signed the [Oracle Contributor Agreement](https://oca.opensource.oracle.com/) (OCA) then please do so
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> is expanded to:
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>> and if you haven't yet signed the [Oracle Contributor Agreement](https://oca.opensource.oracle.com/) (OCA), and are not covered by a company-level agreement, then please do so

Fixed.

>> I fixed the typo.
>> 
>> It is indeed a text from the old days. Sponsoring is still a thing though so we should have some description of what it means and what to expect from a sponsor. It's a fairly short section, and it may be that some of it can be cut or rephrased to better suit the present. If it becomes much shorter it may fit better as a sub-section under "Contributing to an OpenJDK Project".
>> Shortening this text is not at the top of my priority list right now though. I just want to get something that is good enough to change the "Sponsoring" link in the OpenJDK sidebar to refer to the guide. That said, if someone else takes a stab at making this text even more up to date I'd be happy to review and sponsor that change :-)
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> The point is that "sponsor" is merely  some committer that now types /sponsor in your PR. The days when you needed to find a sponsor upfront and they needed to shepherd your change through the system (and run testing etc) are long gone.

Is that really the case? You would still need someone to run proper testing on multiple platforms etc, so even though the actual integration is easier today the work up to the integration point is basically the same, isn't it?

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