On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:19:06PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
The two models I've seen for DCO that work well are the kernel one (which you're familiar with), which suits that project's decentralised nature very well, and the Mozilla one: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/committer/ which maps well to that organisations way of working (with reviewers & super-reviewers taking the responsibility, as opposed to individual developers).
The Mozilla approach is not a DCO (that is, it is categorically different from the Linux kernel DCO which is generally what people mean by "DCO"). In the history of all the painfully misguided approaches that have been taken on such matters, I consider Mozilla's approach (at least the last time I looked at it) quite benign. Nonetheless, it strikes me as rather more heavyweight than necessary for many projects. - RF