(Dropped press@ from reply) I don't find the wording there too confusing if you know that "Projects" includes both top-level and sub-projects. This seems obvious to me when the site says "199 committees managing 351 projects", but that could be clarified further by having it say "199 project management committees (PMCs) managing 351 top-level projects and their sub-projects". The part of the site that says "Committees evolution (also called PMCs or Top Level Projects)" makes it clear that there's a 1-to-1 mapping of PMCs and top-level projects. But that could be further clarified as "PMC evolution (one for each top-level project)".
This is the breakdown I understand: 1. PMCs (project management 'committees' - committees that each manage one or more projects) 2. Projects (includes top-level projects and their sub-projects) 3. Releases (individual artifacts distributed from each project) I actually find the use of the word "product" to be more confusing because the "P" in "PMC" stands for "Project", not "Product". PMCs are neither projects themselves nor committees that manage products. Rather, they are committees that manage projects: one top-level each and any number of sub-projects. So, the main confusing point I find in the page is the use of the phrase "also called" to equate "Committee" with "Top Level Projects". A PMC is not "also called" a "Top Level Project". Rather, it *manages* a top level project. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:03 AM Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote: > As I understand the ASF governance there are: > > 1. Project Management Committees -> Projects. For example: Apache Logging. > 2. Products which are named artifacts from projects. For example: Apache > Log4J > 3. Releases which are released artifacts of a project’s product. For > example: Apache Log4J 2.17.1 > > But on the https://projects.apache.org website the corresponding three > items are called: > > 1. Committees. > 2. Projects. > 3. Releases. > > I suspect that this “confusion” is due to a combination of the split of > the PRC committee and the former time of supper projects like Apache > Jakarta. > > This ought to be adjusted somehow because it leads to misunderstanding > about responsibility. > > All The Best, > Dave > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
