Rich Bowen wrote on 4/17/19 3:08 PM: > By policy and long-standing tradition, no. Companies do not participate > in projects. Individuals participate in projects. > > It's possible I misunderstand the question, but this is something we > have always discouraged. I think it's a bigger question than that, but in general I'd also be cautious. More particularly, any new suggested practices for PMCs should be reviewed against existing documentation:
https://community.apache.org/projectIndependence https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking The big question is: how, specifically, would this be displayed on project websites (the projects that opt to do so, obviously)? I can imagine some ways to recognize corporations, but Rich has a hugely important point above: only individuals are recognized as committers, PMC members, or ASF Members - never companies. So while the corporate linking guidelines above show ways PMCs can choose to recognize corporations who help their work by donating servers/CI/whatever, we still expect all the core work on our projects to be done with individuals using their Apache committer affiliation - and not their corporate affiliation. Having some more specific examples of what this might look like would probably help discussing the issue as well. > > On 4/17/19 2:27 PM, Griselda Cuevas wrote: >> Hi ComDev, >> >> What are your opinions/best practices on attributing contributions to >> commercial vendors who support an Apache project. I recently had a few >> discussions with folks in OSS and they convinced me on this being a good >> idea because it has a two-fold purpose: >> >> >> 1. >> >> It brings clarity to project roadmap and dependencies. >> Knowing what companies are investing in a given area, allows users & >> contributors know who to contact to move their own contributions >> faster and >> gives companies the ability to accept user suggestions. >> >> >> >> 1. >> >> Gives recognition to the companies (or individuals) who are >> investing in >> Airflow. >> This in the long term adds value to the project brand itself as it’s >> easy to demonstrate who is using/contributing to the project. >> >> >> So my question is: Have you seen this done in a project? If yes, how they >> do it? Would you support this? >> >> I want to clarify that I understand that Open Source is about the >> individuals and not the companies, however I also see the need for >> transparency for the sake of project agility. >> >> Thanks >> >> G >> > -- - Shane ComDev PMC The Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
