Sister resources doesn't sit well with me. It feels like a very odd phrase
of English. The only other one I know of is 'Sister Cities', which implies
a sense of equality between the cities.

Resources (Unofficial) gets my vote, as that lets us link in bits in our
own Wiki or personal apache pages.

Hen

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, robert burrell donkin wrote:

>
> On 19 Mar 2004, at 08:50, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, robert burrell donkin
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 11 Mar 2004, at 12:47, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Tetsuya Kitahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:32:31 +0100
> >>>> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>>>> Depends on what you consider a sister resource.
> >>>>
> >>>> At least, I guess robert is considering planetapache
> >>>> would be one of them :)
> >>>> -- external resources to apache.org domain
> >>>
> >>> This is to broad to me for a general "I'll add some unless anybody
> >>> objects".  I'd like to know which you'll add unless anybody
> >>> objects.
> >>
> >> my original suggestion for something like 'Resources
> >> (Unofficial)'.
> >
> > How about "External Resources" then?  "Sister" implies more
> > endorsement than is needed IMHO.
>
> the argument was that it's good to be consistent with www.apache.org
> (which uses this particular term). after reflection, i'm still inclined
> towards "Resources (Unofficial)" (being both concise and accurate) or
> "External Resources" (i like it less than the first for aesthetic
> reasons) and away from "Sister Resources" but my feeling aren't too
> strong...
>
> anyone else have preferences they'd like to express?
>
> <snip>
>
> >> users will need to be able to find these related resources which
> >> will be hosted offshore (rather than by the ASF).
> >
> > I think the jpackage project may be one of the related projects, then.
> > They provide RPMs for quite a few Java Apache projects.
>
> i'd definitely agree.
>
> after brian's comments about the great strides made by the freeBSD
> ports of ASF product coded in java, i'd also like to think about adding
> a freeBSD related link.
>
> but, now (before we start adding links) is probably a good time to
> gauge community feelings about suitability. if anyone has any opinions
> on this, then this would be a really good time to speak up :)
>
> - robert
>
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