Allowing trivial contributions without signing the contributor agreement

[bakkot]

Forgive me if this was raised previously, or should be raised elsewhere; I didn't see anything obvious.

I am working on getting my employer, F5 networks, to sign the contributor agreement so that I can submit PRs. As I'm sure you know, that's not a trivial process at an organization of any size, and I'm not even sure they'll be willing to do so. Even if we do, that's likely to involve conversations with a lawyer, building out a process to get people added our Github org, etc.

Given that the PRs I have thus far wanted to contribute are entirely trivial bugfixes - e.g. this or this - it feels like signing this agreement not a good use of anyone's time (as has been pointed out before).

I'm still trying to go about getting the agreement signed, because I would like for myself and my coworkers to be able to contribute such PRs and also potentially more substantive ones, but while we're going about that I wondered if it might be possible to route around the issue by changing the process so that trivial PRs could be accepted without this rigamarole. W3C has a process by which non-substantive PRs can be manually marked as such, which has allowed me and others to contribute such trivial changes to specs under that organization, and perhaps WHATWG could adopt something similar.

[KiChjang]

See #63 for some context around approving non-normative changes.

[bakkot]

Ah, thanks, not sure how I missed that issue. I guess I'll just close this and add my concrete examples there.