Hello Ian, > I'd like to propose a fork of the cassandra project. Since it was > initially released by FaceBook, It hasn't really grown an active > community around it. > [...] > Several people who plan to use the project in their companies have > banded together and want to fork the project so that they keep the > project alive, and build a community around it to grow it. > > I suggested we do this on the incubator, as it has experience building > communities around code.
There seem to be good reasons for attempting a fork of the project. However, my gut feeling says that this is a very political thing and should better be started on neutral ground (from an Apache perspective). Apache is a home for voluntary contributions. If Facebook is the original source of the codebase, and they don't support the move here (for example by signing a software grant), then the fork should not be initiated here. I'm not sure how a later move to Apache would be handled. We expect incoming projects to get approval from all major contributors to their codebase, if feasible. just my 0.02€, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
