Join .NET Foundation

[kayoub5]

I think project mostly qualify to be a .NET Foundation project, should we go for it?

Benefits

• Dedicated Azure DevOps instance, which allows projects to use as many agents in Pipelines as they need.
  https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/why-join
• Sponsored a number of MSDN subscriptions for .NET Foundation project contributors
• Code signing
• Help with IP and legal
• Marketing and communications
• More at https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/why-join

Eligibility

• Source Link
• Symbol packages
• Code Signing
• Contributor License Agreement
• More at https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/net-foundation-project-committee

[chmorgan]

I'm not opposed to joining. @PhyxionNL, thoughts?

[PhyxionNL]

Sounds like a good idea, I think there are a couple of points left to fully qualifiy.

[kayoub5]

Source Link and symbol packages should be resolved with #346, pending tests

@chmorgan for CLA see:

• https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant
• http://harmonyagreements.org/

[chmorgan]

I'm thinking we might want to avoid the .NET foundation. They had that PR merged story but this one is way more of a concern, https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/

Thoughts?

[PhyxionNL]

I don't think transfering ownership to the foundation is a good idea. Until that changes, let's avoid it?

[kayoub5]

Agreed.