Dain Sundstrom wrote: [...]
I suggest we add a "For corporations" section to the "Incubator Guidelines Documentation" which would contain things, like:
+1 so far. I agree that better, more detailed guidelines would help organizations or communities not familiar with the process prevent confusion and avoid misunderstanding.
Don't do a press release. An incubating project is not officially part of the ASF, and a press release will imply that the project is part of the ASF. This one really makes ASF members angry, so don't go here.
-1 Press releases are a means for companies to announce noteworthy events to the public. Certainly, donating a substantial code base and committing to maintaining and typically also supporting that code base free of charge while at the same time taking on the task of building a diverse community around the donated project and shepherding it through the incubation process is a noteworthy event and can be a significant financial undertaking on the part of the donating organization that the public has the right to know about. If there is a perceived problem with these types of announcements wouldn't a better approach be for the Apache PRC to anticipate and proactively try to prevent them, perhaps by offering to help with the press release? A set of guidelines describing what is and isn't appropriate for such a press release would be helpful as well.
Don't "just" print some t-shirts with the ASF logo or the incubating project's logo. See "Don't do a press release" for reasons.
-1 I see nothing wrong with printing T-shirts or other promotional items as long as their design is approved by the ASF. Companies need to be able to make use of their resources to promote the donated projects in an honest effort to build a community around them. It doesn't just help the project, it's also free advertising for the ASF. Since the ASF gets to approve or reject a request for the use of its trademarks I don't see any risk here.
Do move copyright notices from all source files to the NOTICE file.
+1 I'm not sure exactly what this means but I am certainly in favor of documenting the process of copyright transfer even better than it is now.
Do donate to the ASF :)
And they do -- their software :) Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
