On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:48 -0400, Shane Curcuru wrote: > A couple of brief general comments: > > - Apache's mission is to provide software for the public good, under the > Apache license or a fundamentally compatible one. Hence, we do not > distribute GPL code, for one example (see Category X licenses). > > - Apache projects typically must use Apache managed hardware for hosting > websites and other important services. This allows us to be > self-sufficient in the case of outages, and ensure that we can control > our own fate. > > - There are plenty of technical solutions for creating registries (i.e. > metadata about and pointers to, but not necessarily hosting the source) > of bits of software - both the httpd module stuff, various other obvious > projects, and even our own Maven and Archiva projects. > > - It's clear that there are such a wide variety of services and bits of > software hosted at URLs related to openoffice.org that we have quite a > significant task ahead to maintaining as much of the existing services > to the millions of end users, while also respecting Apache policies. > > - We have friends who work on the Google infrastructure behind > apache-extras.org (and infra@ can put you in touch with people once > there's some specific proposals, I hope) > > I'm sure we can figure ways to have us host the metadata and any > appropriately licensed software, and have appropriate owners host any > software that falls under other kinds of licenses. But it's not going > to be easy...
- but we need not make it harder then need be - so it seems past time to start pulling specifics together on the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Extensions+and +templates Will work on pulling specific items from the longish threads here into a plan we can work through and issues to get there, on that page over the weekend. > > And we shouldn't let it distract us too much from getting the actual > product source code checked in and building, either! Right! //drew
