It is none of my business how TDF establishes its governance and qualifies its officials.
Just the same, I thought it strange that there was a question of any conflict seen in Drew Jensen's participation on Apache projects. I want to say two things, because I have Drew in high regard and I want to be clear about where he stands in my perspective and also my sense of the ASF philosophy and policies. First about the ASF. The Apache Software Foundation celebrates diversity and multiplicity in the world of open-source development. It is a matter of policy that forks, peers, siblings, descendents and ancestors are all just fine, open-, close-, and licensed in any manner. Apache has its own licensing regime and development approach, but it has no issue with the preferences of other projects. Now, some individuals have their personal histories, hurts, mistakes, and grievances, whatever they happen to be. But that is irrelevant to where ASF fulfills its charter to operation in the public interest. The ASF has no issue with whatever associations its contributors have beyond their contribution to Apache projects. Individuals have differences and choose to go their own way, to return, to diverge, to scratch their own itches in whatever manner works for them. I say ASF honors all of that. Secondly, I want to acknowledge Drew for his steady presence, especially in some timely moments in the run-up to the migration of the OpenOffice.org Forums under Apache hosting. Whatever Drew chooses to do, and whether he finds continued participation on AOOo inconsistent with that or not, I want it known that Drew is always welcome at AOOo, as is anyone else here, and he can come and go as he pleases with all of our blessings and thanks. There are no recriminations, there is no litmus test, and Drew will always be welcome to contribute in any manner he chooses. 'Nuff said? -----Original Message----- From: drew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 13:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Howdy Micheal, et al, On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 16:59 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: [ ... ] > Having said that - we've sounded out previous appointees more > informally beforehand, which is perhaps harder here. Clearly this is a > responsible role, and part of our formal governance. As such, some may > have queries about your involvement with the Apache project, it'd be > helpful to know what your plans are there. Huh, it never crossed my mind that this would come up...ok, reality. Well, my plans - truthfully I'm not sure how my activity will progressive within the Apache OpenOffice poddling. Presently I'm not really doing anything there, my intent is to help out some with support and QA tasks - if I can incorporate that into my schedule in such a way that my efforts are useful I'll continue and if not quietly remove myself from the project management committee. Surely I could expand on my ideas of the two projects but am not at all certain that would add much to the decision process here - I will add just this, I don't feel that I would have any problem compartmentalizing my activities between the two projects and should it arise that there is some conflict would quickly take steps to resolve it, as needed. If there are any other concerns on this point please, anyone, feel free to ask and I will take the time to address them as best I can. [ ... ] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
