Hello everybody, At the Board's face-to-face meeting here in Vancouver, we discussed the issue of transferring [from Oracle to Apache] the set of email-forwards for usernames in the openoffice.org domain. There are certainly some legal concerns and some technical work to get through, and I know the podling is working through that.
However, the Board felt it appropriate to set a general Foundation-wide policy in terms of email forwarding services using the Foundation's domains and brands. In short, *only* people directly affiliated with the Foundation as a committer or Member are eligible for email forwarding services using our domains. The core of this issue is based on avoiding confusion/misrepresentation based on sending email using our domains. Just as I can no longer send mail using my old [email protected] or [email protected] addresses, we do not want to allow unaffiliated third parties to send email using our brands/domains. Email addresses using the @apache.org domain are provided for all committers once they are voted/approved by one of our Project Management Committees (PMC) and have returned an Individual Contributor License Agreement. Email forwarding addresses using our other domains (such as @subversion.com, @myfaces.org, or @openoffice.org) would be subject to all the above rules, along with technical input and support from Infrastructure. The PMCs associated with these extra domain(s) may set additional requirements/policies, but the general recommendation of the Board is to avoid all email forwarding services beyond @apache.org. If you have any questions, then please feel to contact myself or the Board. Cheers, Greg Stein Vice Chairman, Director, Apache Software Foundation
