Justin Erenkrantz wrote: [...]
5. Until the Incubator PMC approves a podling proposal *and* the podling initial drop code is in our source code repositories, a project or any affiliated persons SHOULD NOT issue any 'press releases' or affirmatively seek positive publicity (such as 'seeding news stories') .
While I don't necessarily disagree with this guideline it doesn't seem that it belongs here. Until a project is accepted no formal relationship between the proposer and the ASF exists (right?), so this guideline cannot be enforced or even expected to be known to the proposing party. (It only seems to apply to the typically narrow window between the acceptance of a project and the code drop.)
6. The Apache PRC SHALL affirmatively and publicly respond to any such inaccurate publicity surrounding podlings.
I'm not quite comfortable with the word inaccurate here. What exactly does it refer to? (Assuming it's bullet 5, there doesn't seem anything inaccurate about putting out a press release announcing the proposal of a project, ill-advised though it may be.) This also seems like a catch 22. Until a proposal has been accepted there is no podling to speak of, so the proposer can do whatever they want (including put out a press release announcing it). And I don't see anything wrong with doing that (although I suspect that most companies will want to avoid any press until their proposal has been accepted). I guess I'm missing the point of this bullet (the ASF PRC can respond to any PR in any case). Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
