On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: >> I think a better analogy would be "US Culture". Yes it is as nebulous >> as it gets, but the fact that US Constitution exists as a written document >> makes a LOT of things WAY easier. > > Apache's constitution is the corporate bylaws: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html > > US Culture is stuff like Starbucks, Elvis, Manifest Destiny, etc. > Most of that is not coded as law, thankfully. >
Except that there generally aren't authority figures to whom I am answerable to telling me I am doing it wrong if I don't drink Pumpkin Spice Latte's while listening to Blue Suede Shoes. Going back to a conversation from the middle of last year as an example, there is no documented expectation (unless you consider Shane's recently created page authoritative) that the canonical source code repository must live on ASF hardware. Which is fine, we all know the reason why, but when newcomers show up, they don't, and it seems like we are a mass of unwritten rules that MUST be followed. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
