Agreed. That is/was my read, too. On Dec 19, 2011 6:48 PM, "ralph.goers @dslextreme.com" < ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I don't read it that way. Yes, ASF projects only contain individuals, but > most of those individuals are employed and are in some way influenced by > their employer. Calling out that the initial set of committers will be > diverse and that a majority of those committers will be coming from places > other than the company donating the code is very good to know. Perhaps the > sentence should be reworded to simply reflect that. > > Ralph > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > A minor comment on one sentence... > > > > "To that end, Adobe will only have minority representation on the > > initial committers list." > > > > As I understand it, companies don't have representation in Apache > > projects. Individuals do, that may or may not belong to a given > > company, and that may or may not be operating with their employer's > > backing. > > > > It'll be good to have participation by people with access to the > > resources of the original contributors. But it's participation by > > people. Whether or not those people represent Adobe is between Adobe > > and them. > > > > Just so Adobe understands that's a consequence of the code grant. > > > > Looks interesting, though. Given AOO, is this suggesting a trend of > > major companies transferring code and communities to Apache? > > > > Don > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I would like to propose Flex to be an Apache Incubator project. > > > > > > Here's a link to the proposal: > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > Alex Harui > > > Flex SDK Team > > > Adobe Systems, Inc. > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > >
