On 11/9/11 7:53 AM, Shane Curcuru 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.
+1
Juergen
- 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
