On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
Personally, I am less than happy at seeing yet another large project
proposed from a corporate source (and IBM at that), along with a
dozen new
committers who have not earned their merit at the ASF as most
committers
have. I feel the ASF is losing its way, and becoming a repository for
corporate open-sourcing along with taking on responsibility for
building
communities around corporate code bases. I suspect I'm in the
minority at
the ASF, and I'm undoubtedly in the minority here in the incubator.
But
there doesn't seem to be a way for the incubator to say "no
thanks", other
than by a podling failing the incubation process, and that seems
wrong to
me.
The merits of the particular proposal aside, I wanted to comment on
this paragraph. This year at ApacheCon I was surprised to find that
a number of people also feel that the ASF is growing far too
quickly. I know that are some people who believe that the growth
that we are experiencing is indicative of our success.
Unfortunately, I don't agree with that. I think that the
incubation process is setting an incredibly low bar for access to the
Apache brand name, and this is a bad thing. Corporations see the
value of the brand name, that's why they want to come here and are
willing to put up with all our overhead.
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