Which is what was done: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Cassandra.html
> On Nov 5, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If the ASF is at risk with a single company allowed to dominate a project > then why couldn't the approach have been something like: "great job on > building a successful project and community. We think there is great > potential for more involvement at the core contribution level. How can we > work together to augment the existing efforts to encourage contribution and > bring in new contributors? By the way here are a couple of policy and > trademark things that we need to get fixed." > > I didn't understand the assumption that DataStax was doing something > nefarious nor the approach that was taken. On a personal note I had tried to > ask about evidence and the approach previously but was ignored: > https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg09101.html Perhaps > that was due to the volume of messages on that thread but I don't feel those > questions were ever addressed. > > Regardless, I see a positive way forward for the project and am grateful to > everyone working towards that. >
