The ASF is for the community, i.e. community over code. It’s benefits are numerous and include:
- high-quality infra, e.g. issue tracking, automated testing, code scanning, mailing lists, IRC, binary and source distribution, etc. - project mentorship, ASF is packed with folks that understand how open source projects work. Your knowledge will lifted to their level. - diversity, i.e. not just one company / individual responsible for the project. This mitigates the ‘bus factor’ and brings new blood / ideas in. - exposure There are conferences, notifications, websites, etc. - community focus / values. This is just a small sampling of benefits. I am sure if you looked, you would find blogs, podcasts and more containing testimonials from others. Good luck, Shawn > On Jan 19, 2017, at 7:33 AM, g...@rudymail.ml wrote: > > What are the advantages of joining the Apache Foundation? > Yes, I've read the pages on your website, but I don't understand how a > project would benefit from joining the Foundation apart from using the > organization infrastructure. Since a project is required to grow a community > (from the incubator) before becoming an "official" Apache project, I could as > well just do the work and rent a VM to host everything, or use other websites > that host code/trackers/mailing-lists for free. There is actually a drawback > from joining the community: all code becomes licensed to the Apache > Foundation under the Apache License. > I see why an abandoned project would benefit from this, as it could get a new > life instead of dying because nobody cares about it anymore... but what about > other, active projects? Who is the Apache Foundation for? > > > At moment, I want my privacy to be protected. > https://mytemp.email/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
