Since @Smalyshev is a WMF employee, the approval must go through SRE.

afaict this needs legal to confirm the NDA exists and has been counter-signed

WMF-Legal, could you verify that an NDA signed by @Smalyshev (Stas Malyshev) is in place, please?

Also, there must be a simpler and quicker way to verify that a WMF employee has signed an NDA.

In T85170#991059, @Qgil wrote:

Also, there must be a simpler and quicker way to verify that a WMF employee has signed an NDA.

could that be legalpad.wm.org (in the future) ?

Not the deprecated legalpad.wm.org, and not the process we have in place here, since these are for volunteer developers.

WMF employees sign an NDA when they join the Foundation (or they should) and this is why it doesn't make sense to make them sign the volunteer NDA. Unless we change that process.

In the meantime, I wonder what @Aklapper thinks.

I'm not sure i understand why it makes a difference if they are volunteer or employee. The problem seems the same, we need a way to check if somebody signed an NDA and don't have one.

The current Legalpad document is called "Trusted Volunteer Access & Confidentiality Agreement" and it has references to "Volunteer" all over. I have no idea what is the diff with the NDA signed by employees, but in any case, as of today it cannot be recycled.

Honestly, I think this task should be just resolved.

Halleluyah! Thanks @Aklapper :)