On 20/02/2007, at 1:23 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
"The costs of the new web site design were sponsored by a company (http://www.ish.com.au) which uses Cayenne in its product."-1The new site is *very* nice and we should (and we do) acknowledge ish contribution, still the emphasis is wrong IMO. Consider this - all Cayenne committers and other ASF participants work somewhere. I can say that ObjectStyle LLC. contributes money to Cayenne every month (by me paying salary to myself), but this is sort of implied and is not relevant for the board report purpose. People contributing to Apache are assumed to be acting as individuals and if a company covers the costs of development, it is specifically asked to submit a release form (corporate CLA).The fact that you actually lead the redesign project (as opposed to just covering the costs), is what's worth mentioning.
OK. Fair enough, the emphasis is wrong. The meaning I wanted to convey was:
"The Cayenne project was able to secure sponsorship toward the work done on redesigning the web site from a company which uses Cayenne in its product."
I want to give the Board a sense that there is depth to this project beyond the (hard) work of its developers. I think it is a great statement to the quality of this project that a company would want to support it financially.
"The lack of a clear style guide for Apache project site design was noted, even as it comes to use of the feather logo. ASF might consider whether the goal is to have lots of individual looking projects or impose greater consistency."-1I don't think site design should be a matter of ASF policy. Maybe only in part where it is related to the use of Apache logo, but certainly nothing beyond that.
How about:"The lack of a clear style guide for Apache project site design was noted, even as it comes to use of the feather logo. ASF might consider clarifying in writing its goal to have many individual looking project sites. I would be helpful to know which elements on each site are mandatory and should be consistent, such as use of the feather logo."
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