Hi Emmanuel,
> You just committed a bunch of code produced by two person (namely you
> and Lorenz), one of them not being a committer (Lorenz). This is
> obviously something we can't accept, as Lorenz is not a committer, for
> legal reasons : as a committer, you transfer the ownership of your
> code to The ASF. If you are not a committer, then the code is assumed
> to be owned by the one who wrote the code. Sadly, we don't accept
> proxies, so you can't endorse the code he wrote.
Okay, sorry for this. I did not know that the sandboxes are under the same legal constraints.
Lorenz is a (now former) student of mine and since he wrote the code as part of a master thesis, he had to transfer the rights for the code to ETH which in turn gave me the permission to open source it. I have the forms (somewhere) on my desk. So from our legal point of view, I can actually transfer the ownership of the entire code to the ASF. If this does not work for Apache, we can surely find a better way.
> - second option, we can vote Lorenz as a committer,
Yes, I think this is a good idea since he will continue to work on the code. I already asked him to file some patches.
> Assuming that the previous point has been fixed, it would be we better
> to know which part has been written by Jan and which part has been
> written by Lorenz (not that it's important, but at least for a correct
> attribution).
Every class has an @author tag attributing the original author. Do you need this information in a different format?
Cheers,
Jan.
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