added install instruction with apt

[mef]

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[clintongormley]

Hi @mef

Thanks for the fix. Please could I ask you to sign the CLA so that we can get your commit merged in? http://www.elasticsearch.org/contributor-agreement

thanks

[mef]

Hi @clintongormley,

I have some issues with your CLA. Why was it created on the first place, and has there ever been a need for such process? Or was it created just by mimetism of some other open source projects without an actual reflexion?

CLAs are generally common and accepted in most Open Source software projects

No, they are not. There is an ongoing controversy about it, cf. Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

to ensure we have the agreement of our contributors to use their work

You have the agreement, it's called a Github pull request between your open source project and one of its github forks. You should probably talk to legal people specialized in the topic.

The CLA help us achieve that goal

Doesn't the CLA reduce the number of contributions, by adding un-necessary administrative tasks?
Please take into account that in addition of signing the CLA, you're asking us to:

1. Provide our personal information to Adobe Echosign for the electronic signature. Adobe, personal data, leaks...
2. Agree to a customer disclosure agreement
3. Agree to Adove Echosign's terms and services.

The next step is for you to select the appropriate agreement below, (...)

How about we do the following instead:

• option 1: "The next step is for you (Elasticsearch) to get informed and debate internally about the necessity of having CLAs. You realize it's not necessary and get more lean, great !"'. I'm sure you can push people and have this done in 2 weeks.
• option 2: "The next step is for you (Elasticsearch) to accept and merge my pull request, by considering that this message is an explicit approval of your CLAs terms (cf. above: "You have the agreement").
• option 3: "The next step is for you (Elasticsearch) to discard my pull request, re-do the changes I have made on your own repository, commit, and end of story"

That's about it. I hope one of the solutions offered above will let us move on. I hope option 1 will be chosen. Sorry for the rant. I don't mean to troll, but to be constructive.

[clintongormley]

Sorry that you feel that way. We as a company have debated this before and as an employee I need to stick to our established policy. I'll be treating this as a bug report rather than as a PR.