On 22 August 2016 at 20:08, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 08/22/2016 02:48 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >> >> On 08/22/2016 12:01 PM, sebb wrote: >>>> Short of the infra-run places, I don't recall any project web site >>>>> actually using this anymore, but I'm open to being proved wrong :) >>> JMeter is one such. >>> >>> It's possible that others use it, given that all sites are supposed to >>> include a link to Apachecon. >> >> What does "supposed to" mean in this context? Who says? Where is this >> documented, and who is on duty to enforce it? > > Note: That's probably a bit of a rhetorical question, now that I am "VP > Conferences", but I honestly can't remember any actual policy discussion > when Leo put this in place back in 2006 or so, and since we've NEVER > done anything in terms of actually requiring projects to do this, it > seems a little late now to try to go back and force this into every > site's layout. > > Having said that, I'm going to try to *encourage* projects to link to > the ApacheCon site, but I don't think that a text file in the www-site > svn repo counts as "documented policy".
I was referring to requests such as the following [1], sent to all PMCs in Jan 2007 by David Nalley: -------------------------- Please help to promote ApacheCon amongst your project community by linking from your project websites. Notes about how to display images and links to upcoming ApacheCon events. http://www.apache.org/ads/ http://www.apache.org/ads/adserver.txt -------------------------- [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d58b39ee2338f0247a095bd7c549b567bbbec12fb54ab4be5c97ddb0@1169613905@%3Cprivate.apr.apache.org%3E > >> >> I ask because I have been completely unable to find even one site that >> has this in place. If it is "required" we need to be doing a LOT better >> job of communicating this to projects. >> >> > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
