Hello everybody, I tend to agree with James, ASF is a non-profit organization and no advertisement platform for corporations, even if they want to contribute, others do so and don't ask for anything in return. In the how-to-help-FAQ [1] on the homepage is a separate paragraph which states how corporations may support struts by donating time of their team members to help fixing bugs or creating patches to open JIRA issues, or patch up the documentations or HOW-TOs. And look, with JIRA there is a pretty good tool where anybody can sign up for issues wanted to be fixed :-)
IF corporations want to donate money or anything else they maybe can donate hardware to the ASF, give-away software licenses like JetBrains does, or sponsor events like the ApacheCon [2], where they'll even get their logo on the homepage. On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The closer award I looked after was, imho, the best way my company could > give back to the S2 project. By awarding it to the person who closed the > most JIRA issues it meant that the work wasn't "tainted" by my companies > agenda, it provided a tangible reward to those willing to work hard on the > project, and it (hopefully) encouraged others to get stuck in. > > If companies aren't willing to create a general prize, we could always > encourage "bug bounties" where companies can offer rewards for fixing > specific problems or adding specific features they want. Wouldn't this "taint" the work as being on a company agenda? They, can easily create a JIRA and then promote it excessively. I think we cannot judge in general, as this entirely depends on the feature which is promoted, but I don't see this unconcerned. Again, to quote James, if volunteers don't step in on their own, there's a different problem. Bye, -Ralf [1] http://struts.apache.org/helping.html#corp [2] http://apachecon.com/ > ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:49 PM > Subject: Re: Feature sponsorship proposal > > > > > > > I'm inclined to vote down anything mixing Community and Corporate agenda. > I > > think that's just a bad mix. In fact, the ASF has specific > rules/guidelines > > with respect to corporate involvement (employment) with too many project > > leads. > > > > There's a reason that Apache projects are so successful, in one word ... > > "community". I hate it as much as the next guy when movement seems to > > stagnate for weeks/months, but that's never just cause to bring in > > money/free stuff as incentive. > > > > The folks who want to help when there's a prize at the end will be the > first > > ones to dump your a## when you really need them, but don't have an > incentive > > to offer. > > > > If Struts (or any project) doesn't have enough volunteers to keep the work > > going, then we have bigger issues. > > > > Just my $0.02! > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Robert Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Don I have a few questions > > > > > > 1) I agree that this contribution has to be valuable to the contributing > > > company > > > both technically and marketing. Back in 2003 when I obtained free > IntelliJ > > > licenses from Jetbrains for the Struts > > > Committers all they wanted was acknowledgment on our web page and that > was > > > voted down as too commercial. > > > To IntelliJ's credit they still provided the license and later expanded > it > > > to all of Apache. > > > How has the Struts PMC changed since then to allow what your proposing ? > > > > > > 2) What if a proposal isn't on the short list of features, however when > it > > > is proposed the Struts community > > > its viewed as a useful idea ? > > > > > > 3) What if it turns out that two competing companies have different > > > implementations, which is a great place to be in. > > > Do we need to think this far ahead or using Agile methods do we not > > > want to over design this process initially ? > > > > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Don Brown wrote: > > > > > > > As more and more companies start using open source software, many, > > > > like mine, are looking for ways to give back to the community. They > > > > want a way to contribute and ensure their contribution will be noticed > > > > and appreciated. What if we had a feature sponsorship program that > > > > encouraged companies to donate engineering time to filling out needed > > > > features in Struts? > > > > > > > > I imagine it would work like this: > > > > 1. The Struts community comes up with a short list of desired > > > > features with high-level specs > > > > 2. Companies (or individuals) could "sign up" for a feature and > > > > donate internal engineering time to implementing the feature > > > > 3. The Struts community would review then commit the feature > > > > 4. The release notes for that version and perhaps somewhere on the > > > > website would note who gets credit for the feature > > > > > > > > This would help those that want to donate time what features are most > > > > needed by the community and give them a way to receive recognition for > > > > their work in a very public way. A key component in this proposal > > > > is the way credit is given to the work, something that might encourage > > > > the marketing departments of the respective companies. The list of > > > > desired features is also important as it ensures their effort will not > > > > be in vain, and it also implies the support of the Struts dev > > > > community to work to apply the patch in a timely manner. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > Don > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > James Mitchell > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
