All Over the past few months there have been several occasions where I've given podlings/recently graduated PMCs a gentle nudge about brand enforcement and vendor neutrality issues. In all cases the projects have responded positively and appropriately to these nudges and taken the necessary actions to rectify the problems going forward.
However my general experience of the podlings I've been involved with/follow is that with Incubation we primarily focus on teaching people about how to make a IP clean release and teaching the Apache Way around releases, voting, meritocracy etc while not doing so much on teaching PMCs about their other responsibilities such as enforcing their project brand and acting in a vendor neutral manner. There is already some great documentation and policies on this stuff at the ASF such as: * http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html <http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.htmlhttp://www.apache.org/foun dation/marks/> * http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ <http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.htmlhttp://www.apache.org/foun dation/marks/> * http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html * http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/responsibility.html * http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/socialmedia But if we say "Go read this" I don't see that podling members will necessarily go and do so (other than in a perfunctory manner). Shane Curcuru (VP, Brand Management) has a nice slide deck on this from ApacheCon which presents the key points of those policies in an easier to digest form: http://www.slideshare.net/shanecurcuru/supporting-apache-brands-while-makin g-a-profit-v20b Though again it is a case of "go read this" Maybe "go read this" and nudging podlings when they get it wrong is the best we can do in this area but I'd love to know if people have any ideas of how we could do this better? Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
