Hi Shane,
Le 5 sept. 11 à 18:22, Shane Curcuru a écrit :
Ha! Ross beat me to it!
Indeed, the role of the board at the ASF is strictly
organizational. Technical decisions on any project (or podling) at
the ASF are up to the (P)PMC running that project. PMCs are made
up of individuals - corporations are never invited to be on a PMC
or other Apache body.
Ok, I see better now.
Maybe unrelated, but since some key legacy OpenOffice.org developers,
initialy contributing to Apache OpenOffice.org got hired by .. say
some other companies, I really wonder until which point, a Company
can act and disturb things.
The board does not get into technical decisions; nor do the Members
of the ASF, unless - as Ross says - they're acting as individuals
on a project. Even there, Members need to earn commit rights on
each project separately, just like everyone else.
Very sane rule.
For a little bit of perspective on what the ASF is, see my post:
http://communityovercode.com/2011/09/apache-by-the-numbers/
The only part of that Apache by the Numbers post that the board
directly works with is the Corporate section. As for the rest,
it's the People who make up the Communities that write some Code
(using Websites and Mailing Lists) to serve Users. The only reason
for the Corporate section there is to provide a legal place to
stick all of this stuff that's secure and independent from outside
commercial influence. Oh, and to ensure our servers keep running!
Although it's rather dry and boring, the official description of
the role of the Board at the ASF is quite accurate:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/
Thank you very much : like Ross's one, your post is extremely
important and brings a lot of information I didn't catch before (not
being a native speaker is really an issue either),
Eric
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