Are you referring to the first paragraph in [1] and [2] ? It looks like the full stop was present since the HTTPD PMC was established [3], likewise Jakarta and XML [4]
According to [5], WHEREAS means something different when used at the start of a legal document. In such context it is used to introduce the reason for the document. It seems to me that the word is being used here in this specific legal form, not as a conjunction between two phrases. [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/whimsy/master/www/board/agenda/templates/establish.erb [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/whimsy/master/www/roster/views/ppmc/establish.text.rb [3] http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/1999/board_consent_1999_06_01.txt [4] http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/1999/board_minutes_1999_09_16.txt [5] https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Whereas On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 04:46, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think there is a bug in the new project resolution template. > > The WHEREAS paragraph ends with a full stop. Since the WHEREAS paragraph is > not a complete sentence, I believe it should end with a semicolon. > > Craig > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org >
