On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:23, Andrus Adamchik 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. > > 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.
My (Apache hat) reasoning for okaying these entries was that we did mention other significant extra-project news in the past. The Canonical/Ubuntu adoption was big news, as was the publication of the O'Reilly book. I classified these two under the same umbrella. The not mentioning new committers was clearly an oversight. In the future we'll try to keep extra-project news to a minimum. Thanks for all your input! Cheers Jan --
