These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: > >> projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for >> much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad >> practice. >> > > If you as a project had a competitor, possibly a proprietary one, would > you discuss marketing strategy in public? Would you expect the same from > your competitor? This is a purely theoretical issue, but some projects > might be facing it. I don't have a clear-cut answer here. Maybe the answer > is yes, but in practice journalists expect to use confidential channels. So > press/marketing strategy might, and I repeat might, be among the > discussions allowed on the private list. Marketing activities instead, as > opposed to strategy, must surely be discussed on public lists. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
