Hi, > In the proposal, you mention having added people to the committer team. How > many people have you added and what were their company affiliations since > making the project open-source? From the proposal, it seems only people > affiliated with Alibaba and Ant Group have been made committers? Is this > correct?
The affiliations of the Committers' companies are included in the "Required Resources#Affiliations" section. Apart from Alibaba and Ant Group, they come from companies such as TongDun, EWorld, 360, TruthAI, DaShenLin, JD, Helios, and others. It is a community with a diverse group of Committers. > Regarding risks, you mention that a large number of companies use the > project, but they seem reliant on Alibaba and Ant Group. What would happen if > one of these companies changed direction and decided to no longer contribute > to the project? The technical development of the Seata community is driven by the community itself, and it strives to create a technologically neutral community whose direction of development relies on the consensus mechanism of the community. Even if colleagues from Alibaba and Ant Group are no longer involved, it will not affect the development of the community. The possibility of such an incident occurring is almost impossible, as within Alibaba and Ant Group, Seata has already been used as a critical infrastructure application in order transaction and payment scenarios. > Many companies have their own forks of the project. Why are they currently > developing outside the project? The Seata community is very willing to accept and often merge the PRs submitted by other companies. There are many reasons why they choose to keep their contributions as private forks and not contribute to the project. Common reasons include: personalized needs, company policies, or private infrastructure, etc. > What will happen to the website at Seata.io <http://seata.io/> after the > project joins teh ASF? The domain seata.io will be CNAME to the subdomain allocated to Seata by Apache. The existing content of the official website will be migrated to the new official website. The new display content will be modified according to Apache's requirements for project websites. > You say that no CCLAs from other companies are needed, but you have listed > several people with their affiliations in the initial committer list. The > Alibaba ICLA doesn't transfer copyright, so the ASF will need ICLA or CCLAs > from those people and anyone else who has contributed significantly to the > project. All initial committers are ready to sign the CCLA or ICLA with ASF. > Min Ji describes themselves as “The Founder of Seata”. Are they willing to no > longer refer to themselves in that way once it becomes an Apache project? The > ASF doesn’t allow dictators (benevolent or otherwise) is this understood by > the people putting together the proposal? I think I understand this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
