On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stefane Fermigier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 1, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>... One way of crediting employers without >> having to create a whole raft of red tape is have a page on which >> committers can optionally add their employers details (with nofollow >> links) > > Yeah right. This is absolutely unacceptable for me. The nofollow attribute you mean? I absolutely agree with Ross here, and as an Incubator PMC member I will not allow links to companies on the Stanbol website unless they have a nofollow attribute. If you think this is wrong, please discuss it on [email protected]. > >> . This means the moment you vote someone in their employer gets >> credit. Another way (which is my preference) is you have a page >> listing *users* of the product (with nofollow links). This means >> everyone can submit a patch and have their employer listed. > > Come on. The EU is giving 6 MEUR to this project. Nuxeo is giving 50 KEUR. > There is clearly a hierarchy. There might be a hierarchy in the IKS project but the ASF does not care about it: the hierachy in Stanbol is ASF board -> Incubator PMC -> Stanbol PPMC -> Stanbol committers. Nothing else. >> ...The ASF does not single out individual companies. If its not enough to >> get a load of free volunteer time on the software they want to use >> then they can do public speaking, they can publicly praise their >> Apache committers. They can be *seen* to engage with the project both >> here and at public events, like ApacheCon. > > I don't care about the ASF. I'm not even a member.... <almost-tongue-in-cheek-now> If you don't care about the ASF feel free to leave Stanbol at any time. </almost-tongue-in-cheek-now> If you want Stanbol to graduate as an ASF project there are strict rules and best practices in place, that aim to avoid undue company interference with our projects, and fair credit to all involved. If you don't like those rules, as I said the best place to start discussing them is at [email protected]. -Bertrand
