Patricia Shanahan wrote on 5/13/19 4:13 PM: > The first and most important question is something along the lines of: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Q: Apache does everything by e-mail. I do not know or care about the > race, ethnicity, gender, age, weight, or any other personal > characteristics of other contributors. Why are diversity and inclusion > relevant issues for Apache?
There are a lot of great additions on this thread, but we're still missing a fundamental point about "The Apache Way" - I just don't know how to best express it to help *answer* the question. Community over code. A long-held maxim at the ASF, we recently wrote it down and put it prominently on the website (Well, somewhat prominently in this essay): https://www.apache.org/theapacheway/index.html So the literal reply to "I only care about the code" is "That's great for you, but Apache values the communities - made up of people - more than the code." If we look at the Incubator, the primary criteria for being ready to graduate is if the *community* is self governing. Sure, they have to have released some code [1], but the real Incubator questions are about the people working on a podling, not the code. I feel like this is intuitively obvious to many long-time Apache community members, but is still difficult to explain in terms of how that value structure of people first applies in the distributed and online world of all the code we produce. Thanks in advance to Patricia and others who will be editing all these great answers into a FAQ! 8-) -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation [1] The Incubator also does a bunch of legal bits, which are equally important... mostly because having cleanly licensed code means that more people can use - and might contribute to - our community. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
