| 10:55 | <littledan> | err, yeah, I think this change does not have copyright, and I agree that this is editor discretion (who else would decide?), but also I think it's a good idea to generally try to get people to sign anyway if they haven't. Is this becoming too burdensome? |
| 10:55 | <littledan> | There is no Ecma infrastructure for having policy/opinions here--the W3C has that, but we're sort of on our own. |
| 10:57 | <littledan> | I would suggest something like, pinging the thread to ask people to sign, and if a week passes and they don't sign and the change doesn't seem to have meaningful IP (as this one seems to not, and yes I agree the editors decide), then landing it. I agree that you shouldn't stress yourself out intensely chasing people down. |
| 10:57 | <littledan> | In this case, exactly that strategy of just pinging on the thread already worked, so let's just keep doing that. |
| 21:12 | <bakkot> |
Not on the editors, but it's kind of an inherently burdensome request for contributors. It's several pages of legalese you're being asked to agree to, and also when I was a student if I were asked to sign an IPR I would probably have wanted to talk to the department lawyers to confirm that they weren't going to try to claim work I was doing, which they do sometimes do want to claim, before I was willing to represent that I did in fact have the rights to provide "all contributions I will make". (Probably talking to the lawyers would have been overkill, but I tended to be cautious about that sort of thing when I was in school.) So I'd prefer avoiding making the request when it's not actually necessary. |