Greg, it's my fault for forgetting to report the new contributors. Apologies. Next report I'll se to it that more of individual community members and their contributions are included.
-Damien On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:46, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> 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. > > Yup. Both big items. We've seen plenty of book announcements, speech > acceptances, major deployments, etc in the reports. They *are* fair > game, and I don't think anybody is asking to avoid stuff like that. > > What struck me about this particular report was "$x is doing $y with > CouchDB" statements, and I think "great. but that is how they are > *using* CouchDB rather than what they are doing *for* the project." > There are lots of companies that monetize Apache projects. We *expect* > them to. But I'd prefer to see reporting on how those companies > directly contribute rather than their use. (yes, I recognize that a > company's success/use of our projects is a form of > advertising/support/help for our projects, but I take that as a given) > > I'd be much happier to see a mention in the report that says "$x has > committed their $y platform port into the repository." That would be > exciting, and I'd certainly have no qualms about a company name in the > report :-) > > Cheers, > -g
