On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/08/07 11:16 AM Rob Weir wrote: >> >> I think we need to do far better than what was just done, when a >> non-project member, one who just recently announced that they were >> leaving the project, deleted a contribution from a committer, and then >> banned the committer from the wiki. That shows multiple levels of >> problems, security and procedural. > > The wiki is not part of this project. Apache has no control over that wiki > yet. It is still under Oracle. >
If you've been following the list discussions, in another thread, you should know that the wiki is already up, in a VM, on Apache hardware. Switching over to that as the live version will not be long. It certainly is not too early to discuss how we want it to work at Apache. This should be done with eyes wide open, recognizing what workdc well with the current wiki, but also acknowledging what didn't work so well > Your being a committer has nothing to do with the current wiki. You are just > being ingenious to reinforce your anti user community wiki bias. > Like most things, this is a question of balance more than of absolutes. The balance for a community-led open source project under a permissive license that allows downstream consumers to customize and release their own commercial derivative applications will likely be different than the ideal balance for a corporate-led open source project under a copyleft license designed to discourage commercial derivatives. It is important to acknowledge this difference, and then appreciate the what these differences mean for the project.. A key part of being friendly for commercial consumers is that we treat the license questions far more rigorously than the lax approach taken previously. If this is seen as "anti-community" then we need to do a better job explaining the reasons for this. > Larry > -- > _________________________________ > Larry I. Gusaas > Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada > Website: http://larry-gusaas.com > "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind > theirs." - Edgard Varese > > >
