I think this is great. More inline...
On Mar 20, 2005, at 1:19 PM, 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
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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.
I'd actually gently push as we want this to be named "Apache Tomcat 5.0".
"Officially, the name of the project is "Apache Tomcat 5.0", and not just "Tomcat 5.0", and we'd appreciate the change if that was possible."
:)
Well done!
geir
Many thanks,
Henri Yandell V.P., Apache Jakarta
Aw, spell this out. You want this to be as impressive as it can be for this :
Henri Yandell Vice President, Apache Jakarta Project The Apache Software Foundation
:)
geir
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