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Bug 546500

Summary: Problem with vlaidation
Product: Community Reporter: John Kjellberg <john.kjellberg>
Component: Accounts.eclipse.orgAssignee: Dummy accounts inbox <accounts-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: chris.guindon, webmaster
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Kjellberg CLA 2019-04-17 04:43:33 EDT
When trying to make a pull request i get an error. https://accounts.eclipse.org/legal/eca/validation/3097 gives me "This validation request is closed or unavailable" without any hint of what is wrong. How can I found out what the  problem is and how to fix it?
Comment 1 Christopher Guindon CLA 2019-04-17 09:28:24 EDT
(In reply to John Kjellberg from comment #0)
> When trying to make a pull request i get an error.
> https://accounts.eclipse.org/legal/eca/validation/3097 gives me "This
> validation request is closed or unavailable" without any hint of what is
> wrong. How can I found out what the  problem is and how to fix it?

By design, the "revalidation" button will NOT revalidate if the pull request is closed.
Comment 2 Christopher Guindon CLA 2019-04-17 09:34:06 EDT
As described on the validation page, the failure was caused by:

John Kjellberg (john.kjellberg@****.se) did not include the "Signed-off-by footer" which is required for all commits made by a contributor.

https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang/pull/303/commits/52b2e623cac86a657edc0603bd9c6c1cac6c59c9

The sign-off-by footer is required for contributors:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Contributing_via_Git#The_Commit_Record