On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list > has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited > appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. +1 jan i > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: > > > >> projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for > >> much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad > >> practice. > >> > > > > If you as a project had a competitor, possibly a proprietary one, would > > you discuss marketing strategy in public? Would you expect the same from > > your competitor? This is a purely theoretical issue, but some projects > > might be facing it. I don't have a clear-cut answer here. Maybe the > answer > > is yes, but in practice journalists expect to use confidential channels. > So > > press/marketing strategy might, and I repeat might, be among the > > discussions allowed on the private list. Marketing activities instead, as > > opposed to strategy, must surely be discussed on public lists. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
