+1 On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote:
> To add onto this policy with my brand management hat, I would strongly > advise the AOOo PPMC to choose to not provide mail forwarding addresses @ > openoffice.org domain for project committers. > > All committers already have @apache.org email addresses, which would be > the best way to for active committers to show their participation in this > new project, working in the Apache Way, called Apache OpenOffice going > forward. > > - Shane > > > On 2011-11-08 3:32 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> 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 >> >
