CLA on Wiki

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sat Mar 8 21:00:23 UTC 2008


On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 13:35 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Assume that we have been given the blessing to use a one-click agreement
> > to the CLA.  No GPG required, no cumbersome signing process.  Fill in
> > your personal info and click to indicate you've read and agree to the
> > CLA, and create a Fedora account.
> >
> > Now consider our wiki Edit screen.  Assume that Legal really wants us to
> > have CLA agreement for anyone editing the wiki.  We want that process to
> > be as low-drag as possible.  So imagine this:
> >
> > If the user hits Submit, and is not logged in, request the login, along
> > with a "Create an Account (30 seconds)" link.
> >
> > The link either goes to a new page, or pops up a little JavaScripty,
> > Web2.0-y box that collects the minimum info needed for FAS2.  A link is
> > included to the CLA and an agreement button.  The agreement and link
> > appear *above* the button:
> >
> >  "I have read and agree to the terms of the
> >   [Fedora Contributor License Agreement].
> >   [I agree]"
> >
> > Upon creation of the account, the user is returned to their edit without
> > losing his work, and can then submit it:
> >
> >  "By pressing 'Submit', you agree to the
> >   terms of the [WikiLicense].
> >   [Submit]  [Cancel]"
> >
> > Seeing as how basically everyone does it -- how hard is this in Moin?
> > In MediaWiki?
>
> I'm going to put this in as a ticket, if that's preferable.
>

Thats probably not a bad idea, it'd allow us to track it better.  I don't
think the above is too difficult to do at all actually, especially since I
suspect a huge push for the new wiki in the next month or two.

	-Mike




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