On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed. That is/was my read, too.
Even still, companies don't participate in ASF projects, individuals do. To me, the proposal implies Adobe is a participating entity. The sentence in question would read better as "To that end, employees of Adobe will only have minority representation on the initial committers list". Kalle > 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 >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
