On 2016-11-04 14:52 (-0400), Jeff Beck <beckj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an easy place to get up to speed on all the ASF terms? > Infra Karma, apmail, etc... I feel behind on understanding what is > being talked about here.
Sure. Jake sent the glossary, but there are some other good starting points to learn about how projects at Apache work: Big picture description of how corporate and project governance works: https://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/ The Community Development project is designed to help newcomers to Apache projects find their way around, and the dev@community list there is the best place to ask general non-technical questions: https://community.apache.org/ The official Apache mail archive stores all public Apache mailing lists for all projects and now provides a great new UI, threaded mode, rich search, and reply-to features (in browser or in your mail client): https://lists.apache.org/ Here's a great blog post explaining Apache governance in a very conversational way - I hadn't read it before now, but love it: https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2016/03/apache-software-foundation-behind-scenes/ Separately, one of the problems that has been reported in the past is certain vendors abusing Apache trademarks. All Apache project names and logos are legal trademarks of the ASF, and we have a lot of resources about our trademark and branding policies. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources Hope that helps. And hope that we can return to some more, um, polite and constructive dialog going forward as well. - Shane
