Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Marnie McCormack
All, Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is not a simple preference issue. Regards, Marnie On 3/5/08, Carl Trieloff

Qpid Status page, was Re: Graduation resolution feedback - Qpid as TLP

2008-03-05 Thread Luciano Resende
Shouldn't Qpid Status page (news section) have information regarding releases, voting new committers, etc These information help others to have an idea of the project dynamics ? See example [1]. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tuscany.html On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Carl Trieloff

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread sebb
On 05/03/2008, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marnie McCormack wrote: All, Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. Does that mean they are contributing in their private time rather than as part

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Daniel Kulp
Another option would be to not consider the people that cannot disclose their employers when considering the diversity of the project. If there are 15 people, and 5 cannot disclose their employer, only consider the diversity of the remaining people. Kind of the err on the side of caution

Re: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Carl Trieloff
sebb wrote: On 05/03/2008, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marnie McCormack wrote: All, Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. Does that mean they are contributing in their private time rather

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Marnie McCormack wrote: Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is not a simple preference issue. Mind you, they are

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roland Weber wrote: If contributing to the project is part of their job responsibilities, they should be required to disclose the employer. That has not been made a stringent requirement, but see my response to Melanie for what *is* a requirement. --- Noel

RE: FW: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Daniel Kulp write: a quick svn log on their SVN repo for all commits since Jan 1 [suggests that] all but 4 commits since Jan 1 can easily be contributed to RedHat employees. I think the above should provide enough information about the health and diversity of the community that actually

Re: (qpid) Diversity

2008-03-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Marnie McCormack wrote: Several of our project (Qpid) memebers are legally in a difficult position disclosing their employer in Apache world. They have signed a legal document, in order to be allowed to contribute to Apache, and thus this is not a simple