> Lex wrote:
> To be clear I am not against the Eclipse foundation per se, but I am not
a Javaist and all I know about Eclipse foundation is the IDE and whats
written on their website so anything not documented there doesn't exist.

It's understandable to confuse the Eclipse Foundation with its early
legacy. But, to be fair, that's really outdated knowledge. The Eclipse Java
IDE was the first project to be launched by the Eclipse Foundation and
follow the Eclipse Process Framework. But there are literally hundreds of
other project that span languages.

Now, the Eclipse Foundation has gotten into the specification game,
bringing with them their reputation, experience with Open Source, and
rapport with developers. That makes them a very good fit for what it is
that we're trying to do here. In particular, they endorse a code-driven
process, which will help us ensure we get more than just a document out of
this, but something that can be used in the real world.

Best,

-Dan

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 5:20 PM Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 00:40, Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2019-10-24, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 03:13, Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> The asciidoctor implemenation (in Ruby) is actively developed, and
> > >> they are working on creating an AsciiDoc markup language standard
> > >> under the aegis of the Mozilla Foundation:
> > >
> > > Its the Eclipse foundation,
> >
> > Doh -- I knew that.  I don't know why my keyboard produced Mozilla.
> >
> > > but you need to sign a legal agreement to contribute, goodbye all
> > > non-corporate contributors.
> >
> > Individuals can't sign a legal agreement?  Or the Eclipse Foundation
> > just won't accept contributuions from individuals?
>
> Normally Eclipse won't accept contributions from any entity which has
> not signed the document be they corporate or individual, a perfectly
> understandable stance given they usually wrangle competing corporate
> entities.  But since my post Dan assures us that won't be the case for
> the Asciidoc specification, and evidence of that will be provided in
> writing (well a web page) "soon".
>
> To be clear I am not against the Eclipse foundation per se, but I am
> not a Javaist and all I know about Eclipse foundation is the IDE and
> whats written on their website so anything not documented there
> doesn't exist.
>
> And I do agree with Dan that having an independent organisation with
> some clout to hold things like trademarks, copyrights and the
> asciidoc.org domain is a good thing.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
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