CLA transparency

[QuLogic]

Where is the source of the CLA assistant? And who's running it? The status that is posted on GitHub points to http://scitools.org.uk/governance.html#contributors, but that is an old link, and there are no contributors listed on the one it redirects to.

Where is the canonical list of contributors? Who should I ping to update it?

For example, I see in SciTools/iris#3299 that the bot thinks that bouweandela signed the CLA, but I can't find that name in contributors.json.

[ajdawson]

I had wondered the same thing. The source is here: https://github.com/SciTools-incubator/scitools-cla-checker. From a quick look it considers anyone in the contributors.json to have signed a CLA (but that method is considered outdated) and then for the new system it is somehow integrated with the Google Docs form based CLA, see https://github.com/SciTools-incubator/scitools-cla-checker/blob/master/scitools_cla_checker/update_pr.py#L188.

I assume that if it says the CLA is signed then that is acceptable as that user must have used the Newer Google Docs based CLA submission.

[QuLogic]

Turns out there is a page on the wiki detailing all this.