Again about Relicensing KDE’s Source Code
To get started with KDE development, newcomers usually first sent patches. Having sent several patches, the newcomers are typically encouraged by us (the reviewers) to apply for a KDE contributor account. This application includes the question of “who encouraged you to apply for a KDE contributor account”.
Then, the KDE sysadmins contact the mentioned developers to make sure the application is valid and trustworthy. Hence, you, as someone who encouraged others to apply for an account, get a mail with the subject “Developer account application approval […]”.
To all KDE contributors: Given you probably also were involved with getting other contributors involved with KDE, please follow these steps:
- Filter your KDE mails for “Developer account application approval”
- For each contributor, get the contributors commit name (you can look this up on identity.kde.org > Prople.
- Check, whether the new contributor added him/herself to the relicensecheck.pl script.
- If not, please send this contributor a mail and encourage him/her to add him/herself to this script.
You really should check this, since you are also responsible for getting these new contributors commit access.
I did that with 8 contributors. 7 already added themselves within one week. Only one is not reachable by mail anymore… So it seems to work quite well.