On 11 Nov 2016 6:18 am, "Luke Han" <luke...@apache.org> wrote:
> It's really not easy for Chinese people, they have to find out a way to > access > gmail or others since there's GFW, they are not native English speakers, > they have limited experiences for open source especially the Apache Way. > But they are willing to contribute, willing to participate global > community, and try > their best to learn and follow The Apache Way. We should have the patience > for those new comers. The warnings about firewalls are important as many ASFers (myself included) are now gradually falling in love with third-party providers like GitHub for ASF projects; but if those services are blocked (for arbitrary other reasons), then that could cut off whole countries of potential developers for the benefit of a slightly shinier button for the rest. We can hope it helps that ASF is a non-profit and largely political-free organisation (beyond internal and open source policies!) and that *. apache.org is not generally blocked, but I guess even that could happen. I hope people are not under the impression that you need to have access to Google to contribute to Apache projects, any email system which can contact and receive from @apache.org should work! SMTP is still pretty resilient, even if it takes days for a messagr to get through a "manual firewall" it could still be compatible with 72h voting rules etc.
