Thanks for the info Massimo. What a mess for such little points, IMO.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:03 AM Massimo Manghi <mxman...@apache.org> wrote: > The following blog post > > https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/ > > triggered an intense (and at times harsh) discussion on the ASF members > list. As you may have read ASF is forming a committee tasked to reach > for the Apache Nation representatives and assess with them the usage of > the name Apache which is, as claimed in that post, to be an appropriation. > > I hope we may avoid to enter a discussion on this topic, it's getting > overwhelmingly hard to follow it on the @members list. Currently a > couple of discussion threads on @members count hundreds of messages. > > My personal perception is that a consensus is shaping up for rebranding > ASF, dropping the name Apache from the foundation name. > > A few fellows who back in the mid-nineties were in the discussion about > the name to choose for the HTTP web server reported that Apache was seen > as problematic by many right from the beginning. > > The name got momentum apparently because during the early HTTP web > server development someone called it 'a patchy web server', due to the > high number of patches that had been contributed. The pun a-patchy > > Apache worked so well that obliterated the concerns about the choice. > > Probably the name Apache will be around in software and services for > many years to come, still my guess is that it will be removed from > project names and the feather removed from the ASF and ASF's projects > logos. We accidentally happen to have 2 feathers, one for ASF and one > for the Tcl programming language. > > -- Massimo > >
