Again. If the PMC fails to bring board (and trademark) feedback to the community it is not a failing of the board. Board minutes are available. Review comments and actions over the last 12 months or so.
--- Twitter: @rgardler ________________________________ From: Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 8:30:20 AM To: Jim Jagielski Cc: dev@cassandra.apache.org; Łukasz Dywicki; Chris Mattmann; Kelly Sommers; Apache Board Subject: Re: DataStax role in Cassandra and the ASF No it wasn't. You're citing the eventual and agreed upon outcome. I was talking about the approach which is clear in the dev and user list threads that the board was involved in. It is also apparently much more apparent in the private threads which apparently the PMC can make public. > On Nov 5, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > Which is what was done: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhimsy.apache.org%2Fboard%2Fminutes%2FCassandra.html&data=02%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7Ca198e6c0a658409b0b8208d406e21b78%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636141015575977801&sdata=xL7B%2F1xNDCfgnZ2pvTnuuhZWIymllsNV1Z0WNghuot4%3D&reserved=0 > >> On Nov 5, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If the ASF is at risk with a single company allowed to dominate a project >> then why couldn't the approach have been something like: "great job on >> building a successful project and community. We think there is great >> potential for more involvement at the core contribution level. How can we >> work together to augment the existing efforts to encourage contribution and >> bring in new contributors? By the way here are a couple of policy and >> trademark things that we need to get fixed." >> >> I didn't understand the assumption that DataStax was doing something >> nefarious nor the approach that was taken. On a personal note I had tried >> to ask about evidence and the approach previously but was ignored: >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fdev%40cassandra.apache.org%2Fmsg09101.html&data=02%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7Ca198e6c0a658409b0b8208d406e21b78%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636141015575977801&sdata=tvQacSr5ikOC8wgxR6iD2QdtqEYc13rjiA977Ic6FNM%3D&reserved=0 >> Perhaps that was due to the volume of messages on that thread but I don't >> feel those questions were ever addressed. >> >> Regardless, I see a positive way forward for the project and am grateful to >> everyone working towards that. >> >
