Added carbon copy to PRC. Left original message more or less intact so they can follow. ;-)
Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to the timeliness of this, I plan to send it Sunday night. Given that > we're on a weekend, I doubt it will be read until Monday. Still, I'd send earlier if you can. ;-) > Any opinions? > > ------------- > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat 5.0 error in JOLT announcement > > Hi Kate, Start by thanking her for the award or announcement ... or something. > I'm writing to let you know about a serious error on your JOLT product > excellence awards press release, and I assume in your forthcoming June > 2005 issue: ... press release because I'm concerned some or all of the error might be reproduced in your forthcoming June 2005 issue. > http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf > > You've incorrectly attributed Apache's Tomcat 5.0 product to "The Apache > Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss". The article incorrectly attributes... > There are two, very big, problems with this. There are two very big problems with this attribution. > The first is that Apache does not have a concept of leading contributors, > it is completely out of sync with the very philosophies that lie at the > heart of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Maybe add something like: There are a total of N committers to the project, many of whom are employed by other companies or contribute individually. > The second is that JBoss are not a contributor to Tomcat. Two Tomcat > committers are employed by JBoss Inc, but they commit to projects at the > ASF as individuals and not as members of a company. This is true of all > committers to the ASF, whether the company be Sun, IBM or Fred Bloggs Inc. > > We would like to request that this be changed to: > > Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Software Foundation) > > in both the press release (pdf url above) and the forthcoming June 2005 > issue. > > Thanks, > > Henri Yandell > V.P., Apache Jakarta +1 in general Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
