Overall, it looks good to me. The reference in the first paragraph should probably be "Apache Tomcat".
Thanks, Henri. Cheers, -g On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:19:14PM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: > > Added thanks for the award. > > Removed the text about companies not being contributors as it is nitpicking. > > Added note about Apache Tomcat, though I left it open to their discretion > to avoid detracting from the main issue, that of the concept of a leading > contributor. > > Hen > > ======= > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat 5.0 error in JOLT announcement > > 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: > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf > > The release incorrectly attributes Apache's Tomcat 5.0 product to "The > 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: > > "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. > > Many thanks, > > Henri Yandell > V.P., Apache Jakarta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ASF Chairman ... http://www.apache.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
