I strongly echo Chetan's statements and also put my own words below. [CS50] *All "important" discussions happen asynchronously in written form on ..."
1. All significant project communication for the project has and is happening asynchronously and in writing: on GitHub with attention solicited from the dev list for issues and PRs. And our community call minutes are documented on the wiki, as are longer term design discussions. > [IN10] *The project is independent from any corporate or organizational influence.* 2. It's quite fair and accurate to say the project has moved beyond the influence of any one organization and specifically "IBM which helped charter the project". This is evident from the Git contributions and activity dating back more than 12 months now. > [IN20] *Contributors act as themselves as opposed to representatives of a corporation or organization.* > [CO60] The community operates based on consensus of its members (see CS10) who have decision power. Dictators, benevolent or not, are not welcome in Apache projects. 3. The project independence is evident from consensus building among members of the project, on this same dev list, who put forth proposal and seek comments. -r
