With the membership to OpenStack Foundation taking over Launchpad as the main source of identification for OpenStack contributors, it's time to think about an identity system for the whole project.
Work is already in progress to integrate the CLA management in OpenStack Gerrit review system with the Members' database, in order to reduce friction during the onboarding of new developers, increase reliability of our Copyright License Agreement.
Mutuated from Google's way of managing CLA, OpenStack Gerrit will comply with Foundation's bylaws and make onboarding easier.
This session will illustrate the new process and report on its status. Anybody that will be hiring developers to work on OpenStack in the future should attend this session.