On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 5:56 PM Gregory Nutt wrote: > >> Being member of PMC / PPMC seems to be the kind of Voting Rank I was > >> describing.. except it is more bureaucratic / social based rather than > >> result based.. because it depends on the membership rather than > >> overall lines of code added to the project.. on the other hand input > >> to the project may be the door opener to PMC :-) > > > > There are committers and PMC members. The former are purely technical > > in there role and the latter have additional management commitments > > and have binding votes. In order to be either, you have to have an > > established track record of contribution to the project. > > > > For this reason, the ASF considers itself a meritocracy: > > > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy > > https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-meritocracy > > I know you are familiar with the Linux Foundation from your prior work > with the Zephyr. The Linux Foundation and the ASF are both > not-for-profit organizations, but they different significantly in their > legal organizations. I forget the non-project corporation types but > basically, the Linux Foundation is dedicated to free business > development. Projects are controlled through management teams composed > of businesses, usually by paying a fee and getting power within the > project based upon the amount that the business paid (Silver, Gold, > Platinum levels for example). > > The ASF is a different kind of not-for-profit organization, it is > dedicated to the people who use the software project, not to > businesses. So for the ASF it is the user community that matters, not > the businesses that use the software. An ASF project is controlled by > individuals in the community that have made significant contributions to > the project. You will often hear ASF people say "Community over code." > (I personally like code more that people, but that is just me).
I was wondering why Apache not Linux Foundation was chosen for NuttX and I got the answer even before I asked the question again thank you Gregory :-) :-) It will be nice to learn and watch both approaches at work :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
