On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apache communities do a *ton* of things. If the community is helping to > manage non-ASF stuff... no biggy. > > The ASF websites and releases have very clear requirements on vendor-neutral > ALv2 work. If a PMC/community can clearly delineate any work outside of > that... great. > > Just don't confuse our users.
I'm a bit confused. If a PMC is coordinating work, no matter where it's hosted, isn't that ASF activity? I've always assumed that work on GPL-licensed stuff at apache-extras should be done by individuals (who may happen to also do work at Apache), but that an Apache PMC should not coordinate that work. That a product is controlled by an Apache PMC seems to me stronger evidence that it's an official Apache product than that it's hosted on Apache-owned servers. (Not to mention that using Apache mailing lists for that coordination does host part of the project on Apache-owned servers.) When we launched Apache Extras we said that, "projects on the new Google-hosted service will not be managed by The Apache Software Foundation". To me that meant that PMCs should not manage projects there. https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches Am I misunderstanding your statements above? Or is my interpretation of policy too strict here? Doug
