Thanks all for the valuable input. I think there are a few points where we have slightly different interpretations from what is written down (or not). I want to clarify this on the appropriate mailing list (to make sure our official Apache project and our Apache extra project follows the guidelines). From the link [1] I think it's d...@community.apache.org. I will start a new thread there and point to this one.
[1] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches Thanks again, Christian On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Apache communities do a *ton* of things. If the community is helping to > >> manage non-ASF stuff... no biggy. > >> > >> The ASF websites and releases have very clear requirements on > vendor-neutral > >> ALv2 work. If a PMC/community can clearly delineate any work outside of > >> that... great. > >> > >> Just don't confuse our users. > > > > I'm a bit confused. If a PMC is coordinating work, no matter where > > it's hosted, isn't that ASF activity? I've always assumed that work > > on GPL-licensed stuff at apache-extras should be done by individuals > > (who may happen to also do work at Apache), but that an Apache PMC > > should not coordinate that work. That a product is controlled by an > > Apache PMC seems to me stronger evidence that it's an official Apache > > product than that it's hosted on Apache-owned servers. (Not to > > mention that using Apache mailing lists for that coordination does > > host part of the project on Apache-owned servers.) > > > > When we launched Apache Extras we said that, "projects on the new > > Google-hosted service will not be managed by The Apache Software > > Foundation". To me that meant that PMCs should not manage projects > > there. > > > > > https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches > > > > Am I misunderstanding your statements above? Or is my interpretation > > of policy too strict here? > > > > Doug > > And here is the current official Guidelines for Apache-Extras projects > > http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html > > Thanks > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > --
