As seen with former Apache committers like Stephen Colebourne, who found Apache Foundation "too democratic" to realize their ideas of a project like "Apache Commoons Money", he went on to create his own "thing" JodaMoney similar to JodaTime or related projects like java.time, practically run by just a single person (him) aside from occasional corrective input by Oracle towards Java SE 8;-)
There are no Companies or commercial brands officially joining Apache, it's people (who may work for one or the other company) So beside ensuring, e.g. his company Adobe wasn't mentioned I don't think, we'll find any hard-wired reference to adobe.com in DeviceMap despite Bertrand or Radu working there. However, "someone" smuggled at least one corporate reference to a private page rezsoft.org into Unit Tests of the Classifier, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DMAP-116 I don't think this is legitimate or done the same way by other Apache projects. If a company or individual decides to donate resources they may do so as sponsor, and the server would be under apache.org. For Maven, etc. other widely accepted de facto standard places like Sonatype MavenCentral also work, they usually get mirrored with Apache or similar communities. Also statements like "I will remove this or that feature in V 2.0" seem inappropriate or not really the way things are done at Apache if I'm not mistaken;-) "I will propose this removal" voted on by at least all PMC members before "just doing it on my own" is how I feel the process works or at least should work. And a VP of the PMC is merely a steward, not "Lead" of the project, that notion barely exists at Apache (even Rich is simply EVP of Apache Foundation, but there is no "CEO" or similar ;-) Cheers, Werner
