> We will make sure we clean up creator language. Just following up here: the change was already made yesterday ( https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/pull/2557). The website is not yet updated because of unrelated issues in the website Jenkins job. Hopefully it will be fixed in next few hours.
> Sounds fine to me. They just copied something that a TLP project probably shouldn’t be doing. It not the first time that has happened with that project. Regarding affiliations for committers, I would say that it's not that we have "copied" from the only TLP that had it in their "Team" page. I just did a spot check and it seems to be a quite common practice across the board. Few examples (taken ramdomly): http://hive.apache.org/people.html http://storm.apache.org/contribute/People.html http://activemq.apache.org/team.html http://camel.apache.org/team.html http://zookeeper.apache.org/credits.html http://avro.apache.org/credits.html On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:38 PM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 11, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >>> I'm curious to why organisations are mention on the team page [2] > >> > >> I think we've followed what other projects are doing. e.g. > >> https://spark.apache.org/committers.html > >> > >> Any ASF policy on this that we can follow? > > > > Well projects should be independent [1] and lists who works for who may > make some question that, Who you work for should have no relevance on an > Apache project and I would not expect it to be listed on a team page. > > I think that this is debatable. I’d love to discuss it. In the case of > Pulsar it has been important in showing independence. Mentors and even > Sally have worked through a couple of situations in the podling. She has > offered to help out with a graduation announcement. We will make sure we > clean up creator language. > > > > > Re actually policy on this then yes [2] and in particular [3] Note: > > "Should not include corporate affiliations of actual contributors. > Committers are expected to participate in Apache projects as individuals, > and not as representatives of any employers. Including corporate > affiliations on pages that are primarily about the community of individuals > on a project can give the wrong impression to new community members about > the fact that projects are managed by PMCs of individuals, and not managed > by outside organizations." > > We will cleanup this page on graduation. > > I’ll start the VOTE in the morning. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > 1. http://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html > > 2. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking > > 3. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking#whoweare > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > -- Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org>
