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/
