On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Kalle Korhonen <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Leo Simons <m...@leosimons.com> wrote: >> So the generic policy is there is no generic policy, and instead there >> is appropriate application of judgement to specific cases. > > Generic policy doesn't mean you couldn't use judgement or make > exceptions. In principle, if the ASF's mission is to build communities > around source code, we should not accept forks of open source projects > if that's not the (consensus) will of the original community.
I agree with the first statement in the above paragraph, and believe that it potentially leads to a different conclusion than the final sentence in that same paragraph. We have had unfriendly forks within the ASF. We have had instances where the original community has disappeared later to return and attempt to reclaim ultimate direction for a project. We've even had destructive forks where both the fork and the original community ended up failing. We can, and should, make a decision based on the specifics of the community in question, and informed by our past experiences -- both successes and failures. > Kalle - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
