We've had a lot of requests and questions regarding Gerrit account issues, Contributor Agreements and creating branches. Hopefully this information will help everyone to resolve their issues quickly.

Gerrit login issues

• If you are unable to log into Gerrit, please open a ticket at support.linuxfoundation.org
• To resolve your issue quickly, please provide your LFID username and email address

Contributor Agreements

• If you are trying to push a patch and get an error "No Contributor Agreement on file for user..."
• Log into Gerrit, click Settings
• Click Agreements
• Click New Contributor Agreement
• If you work for an Organization select CCLA and sign the agreement for your organization. If not select ICLA and sign the Individual Contributor Agreement
  

Branches

• Only repository committers can create branches
• If you aren't a committer, please reach out to an existing committer. The committers can be found in the INFO.yaml file of each repository.

Committer Promotion

• The committer promotion process can be found in the Project Governance: https://wiki.tungsten.io/x/xYVdAQ
• Please see section 3.2.2.1 Adding Committers
  
• 3.2.2.1     Adding Committers
  Initial Committers for a project will be specified at project creation
  Committer rights for a project are earned via contribution and community trust. Committers for a project select and vote for new Committers for that project, subject to TSC approval.
  New Committers for a project should have a demonstrable established history of meritocratic contributions.

Hopefully this helps clear up confusion and helps the community issues resolved quickly.

Thank you,

Vanessa