> Hi Kate, > > I'd like to thank SD/Jolt on behalf of the Jakarta community for the > JOLT "Productivity Winner" award for Tomcat 5.0. Media recognition of > the work the Tomcat community puts in is always very welcome. > > I'm also writing to let you know about a [serious] error on your JOLT > product excellence awards press release because I am concerned it might > be reproduced in your forthcoming June 2005 issue:
I would drop "serious" > http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf > > The release [incorrectly] attributes Apache's Tomcat 5.0 product to "The Also the "incorrectly" > Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss". > > There is one big problem with this attribution for us, Apache does not > have a concept of leading contributors. It is completely out of sync > with the very philosophies that lie at the heart of the Apache Software > Foundation (ASF), as there are 70 committers to the Tomcat codebase, > many of whom are employed by other companies or contribute individually. > > We would like to request that this be changed to: "request" sounds a bit harsh ...what about "see" > "Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Software Foundation)" > > in both the press release (pdf url above) and the forthcoming June 2005 > issue. > > Officially the name of the product is "Apache Tomcat 5.0" and not just > "Tomcat 5.0", but I will leave it to your discretion as to whether you'd > like to prefix Tomcat with Apache or not, as the subsequent mention of > the ASF is fine. ...always play nice on the first contact. My 2 cents cheers -- Torsten
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