Thanks for the clarifications Ross! Cheers, Chris
On Dec 16, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 16 December 2011 21:12, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Suresh, >> >> On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Suresh Marru wrote: >> >>> Any one has experience with Apache Extras? Poking around I have few >>> questions. >> >> I watched it created, and followed the conversation but don't have direct >> experience. >> That being said... > > Well I'm chair of the committee that "owns" apache-extras (that's > community development if you care) and your responses are almost > entirely accurate - just one minor clarification below... > >>> 2) Are there any requirements on when and how the community should be >>> notified of an extras project? (during creation, releases, periodically)? >> >> It's up to the community, on both sides. From my read, Extras was created as >> a forum to have an "association" with the ASF stronger than simply >> putting something at Google Code or Github. These are projects that may not >> be compatible with the ALv2, but that involve PMC members or >> community members from their parent ASF projects. I don't think there are >> requirements beyond that, per se. > > In fact there are even less requirements than that. We don't actively > police apache-extras at all. We examine any reports of misuse (i.e. > projects should be directly related to an Apache project in some way) > but that is all. > > More details at > http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html and > http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/faq.html > >>> 3) Is there any minimum number or commiter/PMC members from the community >>> be involved in the extras project to show affiliation? As from the FAQ's I >>> see that any project uses the affiliated apache project software can be >>> qualified as a extras project but I did not see any requirements of >>> community members per say. >> >> See above, I don't think there are any minimums. > > There is a minimum of 0 ;-) > > Ross ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
