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> On Oct 3, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Justin, I was doing the change on the website and I went through the policy
> again and I was a bit confused.
>
> In the "Who we are" section:
> https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking#whoweare
> the text says:
> ```
> Should not include corporate affiliations of actual contributors.
> Committers are expected to participate in Apache projects as individuals,
> and not as representatives of any employers. Including corporate
> affiliations on pages that are primarily about the community of individuals
> on a project can give the wrong impression to new community members about
> the fact that projects are managed by PMCs of individuals, and not managed
> by outside organizations. PMCs are free to allow including corporate
> affiliations, but should be consistent in their policy for all committers.
> ```
>
> Doesn't the last paragraph means that a PMC is free to decide the policy?
> (as long as it's either all affiliations or none).
I view this as a choice. If these are exposed then the community really has to
be careful to be operating for the benefit of the whole community even if that
conflicts with their company’s plans. Vendor neutrality in project development
is the goal. Showing this information makes the question more transparent. In
general I think this is good. That said should development ever appear more
vendor directed that would be more likely to be questioned. So, it is a choice
with a strong recommendation, but not all members agree.
If we keep affiliation then mine is currently Dave Fisher Technology, LLC
Regards,
Dave
>
> Thanks,
> Matteo
>
>
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:54 PM Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> Justin, we'll get the website fixed today and I'll ping back on the thread.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matteo
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:51 PM Justin Mclean <jmcl...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Regarding affiliations for committers, I would say that it's not that we
>>>> have "copied" from the only TLP that had it in their "Team" page.
>>>> I just did a spot check and it seems to be a quite common practice
>>> across
>>>> the board. Few examples (taken ramdomly):
>>>> http://hive.apache.org/people.html
>>>> http://storm.apache.org/contribute/People.html
>>>> http://activemq.apache.org/team.html
>>>> http://camel.apache.org/team.html
>>>> http://zookeeper.apache.org/credits.html
>>>> http://avro.apache.org/credits.html
>>>
>>> It makes it hard when TLP set bad examples but the policy IMO is quite
>>> clear here. [1]
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Justin
>>>
>>> 1. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking
>>>
>> --
>> Matteo Merli
>> <mme...@apache.org>
>>
> --
> Matteo Merli
> <mme...@apache.org>
