[Interest] License regarding question

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2016 17:51:28 PST Jake Petroules wrote:
> See, this is why we need to make submissions on JIRA require signing the
> CLA. People simply don't want to go through the Gerrit hassle for drive-by
> contributions.

I'm not sure we should accept drive-by contributions in general. There are 
some drawbacks to it too.

First, there's the shift in responsibility to getting a proper change through 
the review procedure. If the contribution comes via Gerrit, a reviewer can 
point out where to improve the change so it can be accepted. In fact, even the 
sanity bot can provide advice. None of that exists in the attachment.

Second, if we do go through it, reporters must understand that their change is 
a mere suggestion. The developer pushing the change through the review can use 
it or not. That means attaching a patch is no guarantee that the bug will be 
fixed: if the patch is not acceptable, it doesn't fix the bug.

On the other hand, this is a new way of attracting contributors: people who 
take patches from others and reformat them to the Qt coding style, write 
proper commit messages and changelogs, etc.
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