> 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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