Hi Noah,

You raise an interesting point about trademarks.  Are virtual paths in github 
repos considered a mark of authenticity?  If we go by mere name matching, I see 
a possibility .  However, Apache itself establishes a different mark of 
authenticity by placing 'apache' at the root of their virtual path.  AFAIK, UK 
courts expect the average consumer to be able to grasp these subtleties.  I 
expect this is because they don't like impediments to commerce.  Also, they'll 
have to take a narrow view of trademark to avoid overlapping claims from github 
itself.

WRT emails for all GIT pulls, wouldn't broadcasting pull requests clutter the 
dev mailing list?

DL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Slater [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 29 September 2012 15:27
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Github integration
> 
> The CloudStack account on Github needs to be cleaned up then. Perhaps
> rename it so that it is clear the account is operated by Citrix. At the 
> moment,
> it looks like a canonical source for Apache CloudStack. Obviously, this isn't
> okay. "CloudStack" is (or will be) a trademark of the ASF, and needs to be
> used appropriately.
> 
> Additionally, the README.md in the CloudStack repository should probably
> be updated to outline a pull request workflow for GitHub users. I presume
> that pull requests on GitHub send a mail to the mailing list? If not, I can 
> help
> to get that set up.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Donal Lafferty
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> >
> > ASF repo:
> > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-cloudstack.git
> > ASF mirror: http://github.com/apache/incubator-cloudstack
> >
> > Citrix repo: http://github.com/CloudStack (pre ASF and forks for
> > customer
> > support)
> >
> >
> > The wiki and Apache CMS sites should reference ASF repo.  First
> > priority was to move information to the Apache wiki, so not all pages
> > may yet be updated.
> >
> > DL
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Noah Slater [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: 29 September 2012 10:18
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: Github integration
> > >
> > > Just following up on this.
> > >
> > > Could someone explain the difference between:
> > >
> > >    - http://github.com/CloudStack
> > >    - http://github.com/apache/incubator-cloudstack
> > >    -
> > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-cloudstack.git
> > >
> > > Do we really have three repositories?
> > >
> > > Are they all writable?
> > >
> > > Is any of this documented anywhere?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > What's the deal with Github and CloudStack?
> > > >
> > > > I notice things like this:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/CloudStack/hudsonbuild/pull/1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Seems that there is write activity, PRs, etc, going on over there.
> > > >
> > > > Is this stuff mirrored back to the ASF repos, or is it completely
> > separate?
> > > >
> > > > Very curious!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > NS
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > NS
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> NS

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