[simple resend, putting d...@couchdb back on the distro list]
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:10, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote: >>> >>>> Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like >>>> everybody else, IMHO. >> >> If that's the case, then celebrate the developers, not their employers. >> >>> Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of "hats". A commercial >>> developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears >>> 2 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not >>> companies, so here we expect you to be with your "individual hat" on, e.g. >>> when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise >>> interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but >>> so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects. >> >> Agreed. It is about balance. >> >> The fact that zero lines in the report covered two new committers, and >> six lines were >> devoted to Couchio and Cloudant indicates that the balance in this >> report is out of whack. >> >> To be clear: there is no problem with six lines being devoted to >> commercial interests relevant to the project. In a report of 60+ >> lines, that would not even have been commented on. >> > > Agreed. > > A board report is NOT a vehicle for marketing an ASF project > nor marketing a company. It is a vehicle to inform the board > on the status, progress and health of the project. > >
