On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 15:51 +0200, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: >> > […] >> I don't have any of those answers, all that I can say is that managing a >> large community is always a pain, you can't please every one, but at >> least, it *is* a community ! And when it comes to provide a decent >> degree of protection and tooling for such a community, Apahce is not the >> worst place to be ;-) > […] > > One does not manage a community (*). One can enable and empower a > community, but it is not controllable (in a centrally-managed economy sort > of way). > > (*) Especially one as large and dispersed as the Groovy community, most of > whom are not actually known to the central committee.
I would agree with your point here. ASF is very libertarian in a way that it delegates pretty much every aspect of governing a community to the PMC. What's left is a few non-negotiable principles that are common among all the PMC and are collectively known as the "Apache Way". I would encourage everybody to read: http://theapacheway.com/ Thanks, Roman.
