"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > > > Agreed. At the same time, I would love to see something written down > > about 'how the ASF guidelines are'. They might not be binding, just > > recommendations, but I think this will help a lot communities becaue > > these guidelines are distilled after years of try/fail cycles (and lot > > of pain!) > > A slightly more formal way to do this would be to explicitly canonicalize > "Apache Way" policies like this at the apache.org level, and these > automatically become the default policies for any Apache project unless > that project deliberately (perhaps within some limits TBD) chooses to > operate differently. The requirement for following these (or specializing > them) would be an explicit part of a new project's charter.
i'm working on it; there's too much good stuff and too many good ideas coming too quickly for me to keep up easily. :-)
