Whilst I agree it has been discussed and understood I'm still trying to understand what the issue being raised is. A bunch of the initial committees are already ASF Members, the proposal does not talk of the initial backers other than in tue ways required by the proposal process and we make it clear that meritocracy is important to the initial team both at the start and moving forwards.
I still feel that I'm missing Bills point. Ross Sent from my mobile device. On 23 Feb 2011, at 22:19, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was discussed a few times in the past month while we were working on the > proposal. > I believe that's fairly clear to everybody. The project starts with code > grants from the organizations mentioned. > > Hadrian > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:49 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > >> On 2/21/2011 5:18 PM, Ate Douma wrote: >>> >>> The Apache Rave project proposal is a joined effort of Hippo, the MITRE >>> Corporation, the >>> Open Gateway Computing Environments project (OGCE), the SURFnet SURFConext >>> Portal project, >>> OSS Watch, and several other individuals. >> >> Keep in mind that only individuals participate at Apache, sometimes >> independently, sometimes as employees, but ASF projects are collaborations >> of developers (and docs and users, but principally of developers). This >> might be part of the reason for some [dis]quiet to the proposal. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
