A number of different issues recently about commercial influence in our projects have had me thinking about the importance that Apache projects are managed independently. Since this isn't explicitly stated in the obvious places, I wrote a little essay for my personal blog:
http://communityovercode.com/2011/05/apache-projects-are-independent/ Comments? I think as the ASF grows up, and as some of our projects are on the way to scoring mega stardom, it's important to ensure both that our projects can continue to manage themselves independently, but also to *explain* to the world that this is important to us, and why. Do people like this? Where would be a good place to put it in /dev or the community site as a requirement for Apache projects? I think it's clear that the board (past, present, and future) will expect projects to be managed independently, but it's not clear that we've done a good enough job of explaining this yet. - Shane
