This page is the step-by-step guide to signing the Alliance's Contributors License Agreement. It's easy and pretty painless!
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First and foremost, read the current version of the CLA. It is written to be as close to plain English as possible.
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Make an account on GitHub if you don't already have one.
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File a pull request on this project (the pvdeg Project), as outlined below.
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Email the pvdeg Sourceror, as outlined below.
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Wait for an Alliance team member to merge your pull request. You may start opening pull requests for the project you're contributing to but we will only be able to merge your contributions after your signed CLA is merged.
If you don't yet know how to file a pull request, read GitHub's document about it.
Make your pull request be the addition of a single file to the
contributors directory of this project. Name the file
with the same name as your GitHub userid, with .md
appended to the
end. For example, for the user shirubana
, the full path to the file
would be contributors/shirubana.md
.
Put the following in the file:
[date]
I hereby agree to the terms of the Contributors License
Agreement, version 1.0, with MD5 checksum
46ea45f996295bdb0652333d516a6d0a.
I furthermore declare that I am authorized and able to make this
agreement and sign this declaration.
Signed,
[your name]
https://github.com/[your github userid]
Replace the bracketed text as follows:
[date]
with today's date, in the unambiguous numeric formYYYY-MM-DD
.[your name]
with your name.[your github userid]
with your GitHub userid.
You can confirm the MD5 checksum of the CLA by running the md5 program over cla-1.0.md
:
md5 cla-1.0.md
MD5 (cla-1.0.md) = 46ea45f996295bdb0652333d516a6d0a
or on Windows
CertUtil -hashfile cla-1.0.md MD5
MD5 hash of cla-1.0.md: 46ea45f996295bdb0652333d516a6d0a
If the output is different from above, do not sign the CLA and let us know.
That's it!
Send an email to pvdeg's official Open Sourceror at silvana.ovaitt@nrel.gov, cc-ing michael.kempe@nrel.gov, with the subject "CLA pvdeg" and the following body:
I submitted a pull request to indicate agreement to the terms
of the Contributors License Agreement.
Signed,
[your name]
https://github.com/[your github userid]
Replace the bracketed text as follows:
[your name]
with your name.[your github userid]
with your GitHub userid.