Re: [PyDB2-discuss] New release on sourceforge?

[Dan S. <de...@gm...>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:12:00 +0900, ??? <yo...@li...> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Scott" <de...@gm...>
> To: <pyd...@li...>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [PyDB2-discuss] New release on sourceforge?
> 
> 
> > Hi Yuval, Man-Yong:
> >
> > Any chance of that 1.0 release happening?
> 
> Yuval, I want you to release 1.0.  In fact, I don't know how to release a new version in sf.net.

Yuval, when you create the release, let me know and I'll update the
Python Package Index entry for the project.

> > Also, it would be a really nice follow-up if Man-Yong could produce
> > the win32 binaries for the relatively recent Python 2.4 release.
> 
> Sure.

Excellent!

> > When you start developing the 1.1 branch, would you consider
> > instituting a basic Contributor License Agreement (CLA) like Eclipse
> > and Apache do? The CLA is a legal process that asks would-be
> > contributors & the contributors' employers to sign off on a form
> > stating that the code they are contributing is rightfully theirs to
> > contribute -- basically a way of avoiding any contributions from shady
> > sources.
> >
> > My employer is a bit wary of projects that don't hava a CLA process,
> > so I can't be too useful to the effort without it :( Unless you call
> > sending requests and little reminder notes to the mailing list
> > useful...
> >
> > Dan
> 
> Of course!

That's great! For further information on the Contributor Licensing
Agreement (Python itself adopted a CLA process earlier this month) you
can look at http://www.python.org/psf/contrib.html

This is really exciting; with these steps in place I think this
project will really take off and become more active again.