Hi On 10 November 2011 12:40, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > I have noticed as each N-L project is ported that they are all unique. Each > community has made its own choices about what is in the "site". At the ASF > the PPMC must be responsible for governing the project. We must find a way to > be a global community, yet we also need to follow a few rules.
I quite agree. The issue with us, was that we needed—or I felt we needed—to grow exponentially, and fast. But at this point, I do believe that autonomy is great, but autonomy without community is a nonstarter, and a community only can sustain itself by agreeing to core beliefs and practices. As we no longer have corporate overlords here in Apache land, and as we really are a community driven thing, a res publica, then I would suggest that one of our topmost orders of business be the communal crafting and articulation and posting of a manifesto—a declaration of identity within Apache—that gives guidance as well as identity to Apache OO's members/contributors. Cheers louis
