Approve and Manage Contributors
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After a company signs a CCLA, the company's CLA Managers can approve their company's employees to contribute by adding them to their Approved List for that project. Approved Lists are lists of domain names, email addresses of individuals, GitHub usernames, GitHub organization names, that allow contributors to be authorized to contribute under the signed CCLA.
As a CLA manager for a project, you can:
Note: Before doing any of the following actions, you must first be a CLA Manager under a signed CCLA. If your company has not yet signed a CCLA, you will need to first .
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Click a project of interest.
Click + Add Approval Criteria under Approved List Of Contributions From My Organization.
4. On the Add Approval Criteria window, select an option from the drop-down list, and provide details in the field next to it.
5. Click +Add More to add other details for more contributors.
6. Click Save to save the approval criteria settings.
If you add a contributor to the approved list after you receive an email requesting authorization, inform them to before they contribute to the project.
Click in the row for one of the Approval List criteria, make edits, and click Save.
Click in the row for one of the Approval List criteria, to delete the contributor or the group criteria.
Note: If you delete a contributor's details or an approval criteria, then the status of signature for the contributor, who signed a CLA under a CLA group with that criteria, will be displayed as "Disabled" under Signatory tab of the CLA group on project console. For details about the statuses see, . Only Project Managers and Community Program managers can access project console (also called Project Control Center).
