Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Bill Barker
Please don't feed the Trolls. - Original Message - From: "Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:53 AM Subject: Re: Leading Contributor? Tim, This is a *VERY* slippery slope. All of us are com

Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Henri Yandell
ntributions (code) from individuals, and code donations from corporations. So JBoss, as an entity, is not a contributor. And it goes without saying that the concept of "leading contributor" again flies against the grain of what the ASF is all about. When such basic tenets of the ASF and &qu

Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Jim Jagielski
izes contributions (code) from individuals, and code donations from corporations. So JBoss, as an entity, is not a contributor. And it goes without saying that the concept of "leading contributor" again flies against the grain of what the ASF is all about. When such basic tenets of the ASF a

Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Torsten Curdt
Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Tim, > > This is a *VERY* slippery slope. All of us are committers at Apache on > a personal basis and our employment is no bearing on our committer > status. Remember, they (or anyone for that matter) else can fork > Tomcat (and call it by any name they want and do whate

Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Tim, This is a *VERY* slippery slope. All of us are committers at Apache on a personal basis and our employment is no bearing on our committer status. Remember, they (or anyone for that matter) else can fork Tomcat (and call it by any name they want and do whatever they want) if they crave publici

RE: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-19 Thread Tim O'Brien
> -Original Message- > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yep, I think the only major request we can have here is that > it be called Apache Tomcat and not just Tomcat. The 'leading > Tomcat contributor' is just plain wrong, someone has been > listening to JBoss press r

Re: Leading Contributor?

2005-03-18 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, J Aaron Farr wrote: I'm sorry if this hits any nerves, but I didn't know we singled out leading contributors for our projects be they individuals, organizations or companies. Right. The Software Developer "Jolt" awards [1] just came out from Software Development Magazine and T

Leading Contributor?

2005-03-18 Thread J Aaron Farr
I'm sorry if this hits any nerves, but I didn't know we singled out leading contributors for our projects be they individuals, organizations or companies. The Software Developer "Jolt" awards [1] just came out from Software Development Magazine and Tomcat made a "Productivity Winner" for the web d