I am not interested to work with you anyway, David, but thanks for the feedback. I've confirmed that I wanted to know about "WANdisco effect". I guess nobody objects against your code contributions to Trac if you're comfortable with the 3rd clause of its BSD license. ,) -- anatoly t.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, David Richards <da...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Anatoly, > Actually you are the only / first to bring this up but as you have I will > respond. > 1. Even though we knew that we would be roundly criticized / chastised. Our > goal was to kick-start the SVN project. There were a number of obstacles in > the way (corporations with vested interest). The article was taken > out-of-context as one might expect. The proof of the 'pudding is in the > eating' and we are very happy at the renewed pace of SVN development by the > community. > 2. We have full time open source developers that are a distinct group within > our company. that means that they are paid by us to develop open source > (Subversion). Not doing pre-sales engagements, not developing software for > the sole benefit of WAndisco but doing it for the community at large. > 3. We support apache with more that just words in addition to the huge > donation of paid developer time we are also a corporate sponsor of the > ASF: http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-sponsors-apache-software-foundation > 4. Following that article a very senior (board member) at Apache and one of > the founders of the Subversion project has a working relationship with the > company. > 5. the statement "but I am not sure if everyone would like to hear one day > that "WANdisco wrote trac-hacks in your press releases." is, politely > speaking, far fetched. Our goal is to reinvigorate a community around Trac > *NOT* destroy it. My interest in Trac hacs is simple - we are looking for > talented developers to come and get paid to develop Trac full time. > I hope that clears that up. > - David > > > > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:59 AM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> >> You company reputation isn't that good - >> https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_subversion_to_wandisco_1 >> - it is nice you realise the value of Trac, but I am not sure if everyone >> would >> like to hear one day that "WANdisco wrote trac-hacks" in your press >> releases. >> >> Just my 0.02 cents. >> -- >> anatoly t. >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:41 AM, David Richards <da...@wandisco.com> >> wrote: >> > WANdisco is an active participant in the Apache Subversion Open Source >> > project. >> > We are interested in active participation in Trac. We are looking for >> > full-time software engineers (who have contributed to Trac in the past) >> > to >> > join our team. >> > If you are interested please reply to this email. >> > - David >> > _______________________________________________ >> > th-users mailing list >> > th-users@lists.trac-hacks.org >> > https://lists.trac-hacks.org/mailman/listinfo/th-users >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ th-users mailing list th-users@lists.trac-hacks.org https://lists.trac-hacks.org/mailman/listinfo/th-users
