On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > The trademark task[1] seemed a little dated to me - especially since > the brand team started focusing on trademarks[2] - and poorly > documented. So, I started looking into improvements... > > (Apologies in advance for presenting my views here on some initial > discussions on the private trademark lists. Members are encouraged to > subscribe.) > > Just passing everything onto the brand team is likely to stretch the > resources they have available. So, I think the Incubator needs to > remain involved in the process. Reporting facts in public is fine but > interpretation is tricky and best discussed in private[3] with experts > available. So, the brand team also needs to be involved. My proposed > starting point is that an improved process should separate the public > (Incubator community) from the private (Brand community). > > Rat needs to perform it's kill search[4]. So I thought we might be > able to use that as a worked example to grow an improved process. > > Opinions? Objections? Improvements? Comments?
<silence/> (sounds like lazy consensus so I'll push on) More eyes make all bugs shallow :-) ATM each podling conducts a kill search guided by just [1]. I know of no public record of what was done (if anyone knows where fact finding is recorded, please jump in :-) Incubator-wide public records would improve oversight[5] and reduce the bar to learning by example. Using a JIRA project[6] (unless anyone jumps in with a good candidate, a new one) to record and coordinate fact finding seems like an easy way to do this. Opinions? Objections? Improvements? Alternatives? Robert > [1] "Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist > and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already > trademarked for an existing software product." > [2] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ > [3] Public speculation may be relevant in court > [4] AIUI this is the usual name for our task [5] by Incubator, brand and legal communities [6] Within the Incubator https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProjects.jspa#10024 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
