On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:05 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > Dave, > > For some reason, I feel like I commented on that thread as well, but don't > see it, so I'm either thinking of something else or its inlined somewhere > that I didn't see (e.g. the emails back and forth with Pierre). > > The question to always ask with company alliances is if someone would > contribute to the project if they weren't paid by $dayjob to do so. The > beauty of the Apache Way is by focusing on individuals, this problem > becomes more apparent. Of the new contributors you added that work for > Esgyn, which of them would realistically contribute to Trafodion if they > weren't employed by Esgyn? Likewise, if Esgyn stopped building a product > on top of Trafodion, would those contributors remain? > > In addition, with such tight company affiliation, does the PMC represent a > reasonable cross section so that they can assert their iP claims? For > example, based on looking at the usage of Trafodion vs Apache Trafodion on > https://esgyn.com/ would the PMC send an email to some representative of > Esgyn asking them to correct the branding errors? (To be clear, a cursory > look around the website only gives me one minor error, nothing crazy like > we've seen with other projects, you've done a great job keeping branding in > line with guidelines on both the ASF site and here) > > These are the reasons, at least from my POV, why community diversity is > important. To be honest, I don't see any of the typical warning signs I > see with company backed ASF projects that I see here. Its clear that its > ASF developed first. I see great communication and collaboration via email > (heck, I wish my $dayjob communicated this well via email). > > So to answer your question, no, I don't think Trafodion needs more > mentors. Maybe you need some help with the graduation process, but from my > POV you seem like TLP material to me.
+1 to the above. I honestly still don't understand what is the problem with Trafodion (if any) that piling mentors up would be a good solution to. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
