Re: Software Freedom Day

2015-09-17 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
I guess it's like Mothers' Day or Fathers' Day or Grandparents' Day. Everyone ought to remember, respect and appreciate them every day, but those specially marked days drive awareness of all that they bring to our lives. Thus, SFD would publicize and increase awareness of the benefits of FOSS. Thi

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Pardon me from jumping in but... Roman's original question was: > > > > *For example, what would be the legal basis for stopping a 3d party from > releasing a snapshot of ASF's project source tree and claim it to be a > release X.Y.Z of said project?* > So he was asking about someone taking what

Re: slack

2015-08-10 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Just wanted to make a comment on the mail from Louis Suárez-Potts < lui...@gmail.com>, in which he related his conversation with James H., a Slack engineer. Comments are inline below. Highlighting is mine: So, I pinged the nice folks at Slack (and they really are nice!, or at > least the guy I com

Re: New Subscriber

2015-07-26 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Hi Ravindranath, I am a recent newcomer to ASF, too. Here are some wiki pages that help newcomers get oriented. You might have seen them already but I still thought of letting you know. You don't have to read necessarily in the order I have listed them. 1. http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-work

Re: Fw: Is https://projects-new.apache.org/ ready for prime time?

2015-07-15 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Just read this page: https://projects.apache.org/about.html I'll create a COMDEV ticket and try to fix it myself. This would be my first contribution to the Apache community. :-) - Ajoy On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Ajoy Bhatia wrote: > Hi all, > > On https://proje

Re: Fw: Is https://projects-new.apache.org/ ready for prime time?

2015-07-15 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Hi all, On https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category, the only 2 occurrences of "hadoop" are the link to the Apache Hadoop project page in the *database* category, and as the *h