We will shortly be applying a new CLA - v5 - to the SciTools organization, affecting all repositories within. This will be managed by CLA Assistant.

• The CLA itself can be seen here.
• A demonstration of a CI check:
  Ensure dtype is preserved after regridding iris-esmf-regrid#239 (comment)
• Branch protection rules will be applied to prevent merging without a ✔ from CLA Assistant.
• Using a CLA can discourage contributors; our decision to keep it is discussed briefly here:
  Remove the CLA? cartopy#1919 (comment)
• CLA Assistant has been activated as of 2023-12-22, but the more popular SciTools repositories have been initially exempted to give time to warn maintainers outside the UK Met Office, and to update documentation.
• It's not too late to make changes to the Summary section of the CLA, if anyone has any strong feelings, since there are only a few signatories so far (CLA changes invalidate previous signatures).
  2024-02-22 now rolled out everywhere