Feature: Accepting Community Contributions to Government Repositories
As a private citizen
In order to participate in the open source community
I would like to voluntarily contribute my code to an official bcgov project
Scenario:
Given publicly available source code on github
When I fork a repository from bcgov
And I commit code in my forked repository
And I send a pull request to the upstream bcgov project repository
And the pull request contribution contains a valuable improvement to the upstream
Then I would like my contribution to be merged upstream
And I should accept that my contribution will be redistributed under the terms of the upstream license
And I should accept that my contribution includes patches to code
And I should accept that my contribution includes a public record of my name
And I should accept that my contribution includes a public record of my emailAs maintainers, we might require citizens to e-sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before merging their changes, or we might include a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) in the repository they're merging to. In the CLA vs DCO decision some evaluation of the minimum documentation of citizen consent required would be helpful. A DCO is might lighter-weight and the process officially adopted by the Linux Foundation, so a good place to start might be to evaluate the suitability of that approach before evaluating a CLA.
As maintainers, we might require citizens to e-sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before merging their changes, or we might include a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) in the repository they're merging to. In the CLA vs DCO decision some evaluation of the minimum documentation of citizen consent required would be helpful. A DCO is might lighter-weight and the process officially adopted by the Linux Foundation, so a good place to start might be to evaluate the suitability of that approach before evaluating a CLA.