On 16/03/2010, at 10:15 PM, David E Jones wrote:

> 
> On Mar 16, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
> 
>> On 16/03/2010, at 9:44 PM, David E Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 16/03/2010, at 6:58 PM, David E Jones wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 16/03/2010, at 6:39 PM, David E Jones wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'll admit I empathize with what Sharan is expressing here. It's hard 
>>>>>>> to do stuff, or know how to do stuff and what to do, when there are a 
>>>>>>> bunch of people responding with implied policies or with vetoes for 
>>>>>>> this and that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well let's document it so everyone knows what the community policy is.  
>>>>>> Please feel free to comment on the guidelines I proposed elsewhere in 
>>>>>> this thread.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You've quite clearly stepped away from taking an administrative position 
>>>>>> within the community and it would be nice if we didn't spend too much 
>>>>>> time criticizing people who are trying to help fill that void.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oh, is that what's happening? I guess I missed that... I didn't even 
>>>>> realize there was an administrative void. Maybe it goes further than 
>>>>> that... when I was the PMC Chair maybe a lot of stuff went on that needed 
>>>>> more "administration" when I didn't think any interference was necessary. 
>>>>> Or, maybe that has nothing to do with the PMC Chair role anyway...
>>>> 
>>>> These front page issues are ones that I haven't seen the community have to 
>>>> deal with before so I have no idea how you might have dealt with it back 
>>>> when you were more involved.  I wasn't referring to the PMC Chair position 
>>>> as such, more so the general guidance that you used to provide on all 
>>>> things OFBiz and the weight that such guidance carried.
>>>> 
>>>> If you feel that some of the links posted recently are perfectly 
>>>> acceptable then let's discuss that, otherwise I'm not really sure of the 
>>>> point you're trying to get across.
>>> 
>>> My point is that we need to really do something, or we need to do nothing. 
>>> We're getting into areas of marketing and promotion for community members, 
>>> and that's a tough topic in a community driven primarily be contracting 
>>> service providers. There are a few hobbyists that contribute to the 
>>> project, but not a whole lot. There are a few product companies that do 
>>> independent marketing that contribute, but not a whole lot. AFAIK that is 
>>> pretty different from most ASF projects.
>>> 
>>> While we don't allow blatant marketing on the official web site (it is 
>>> allowed in the wiki, and we even have specific places for it)
>> 
>> You make this sound like a policy
> 
> I'm just referring to the ASF policy as for certain things not allowed on 
> project sites.

Okay so there is a policy, that's great, let's use it.

Regards
Scott

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