On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Mladen Turk wrote:

> On 03/18/2010 03:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote:
>> 
>> Can all the people who are no Yahoo's let me know which company
>> affiliation(s) they have? I had no idea we had to track what company
>> contributors / PMC members work for, that honestly seems a little bit
>> odd to me, but if it's the "way", I'm fine with it. I'd assume this is
>> "voluntary" information though, or is it required for every member to
>> disclose any and all company affiliations?
>> 
> 
> Found it:
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ExitingIncubator
> 
> "No single organization supplies more than 50% of
> the active committers (must be at least 3 independent committers)"

WTF?  That is an ancient wiki page created as a proposal in 2003
and long since forgotten by the incubator.  Ignore it (or delete it).

> So this implies you'll need some knowledge on the affiliation.
> I'm more concerned about the 50% rule, since there are
> at least 4 PMC members with different affiliation.

There is no %50 rule.  The only thing that matters is how the
project is being run (on the dev list), and the only diversity
requirement is that the PMC actively seeks diversity (not that
any fixed quota be achieved prior to graduation).

....Roy

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