Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-21 Thread William Li
Hi Alex - not much of question or answer. It was just simply a curiosity that how other people could pull a statistics like what it's in the URL. I thought there is an official way but since you mentioned that could be done through logs - it makes sense. thanks! William. On 2017-04-20 18:41 (

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-20 Thread Alex Harui
On 4/20/17, 10:14 AM, "William Li" wrote: >Thanks Ted. No worries on the commitment side. Either way I'd start >learning and contributing. > >If there are ways to check contributions by companies, it could be a >win-win for both the individuals and the companies who are sponsoring. Hi William,

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-20 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, William Li wrote: > If there are ways to check contributions by companies, it could be a > win-win for both the individuals and the companies who are sponsoring. > It could be a win if Apache were interested in being a pay-for-play sort of foundation. We aren't

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-20 Thread William Li
Thanks Ted. No worries on the commitment side. Either way I'd start learning and contributing. If there are ways to check contributions by companies, it could be a win-win for both the individuals and the companies who are sponsoring. On 2017-04-19 21:09 (-0700), Ted Dunning wrote: > Well,

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Ted Dunning
Well, articles like that and the related FUD are one of the major reasons why Apache takes the "individuals do the work" tack. Quite frankly, if you really intend to share, then moaning when others take you at your word is pretty sad. Better to share with open hands. Or don't. Make up your mind a

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread William Li
Thanks for all your replies. I ran into some blog posts which compared different company contributions, for example like this one: http://readwrite.com/2013/11/14/hadoops-biggest-vendors-may-contribute-least-to-its-development/. I don't know how they ran the counts. That’s the reason why I w

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:34 PM, William Li wrote: > ...Could any one please tell me how to register contributors under a specific > company name?... You don't - contributors to Apache projects *must* act as themselves, as opposed to representing their company. It's great to have companie

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 09:34:18PM -, William Li wrote: > Hi - I'm new and my company is interested to have developers to contribute to > a couple of apache open source projects. Could any one please tell me how to > register contributors under a specific company name? > > I searched throug

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-18 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi William Apache don't have a special way to contribute from a Company. We look at all contributors as an individual. Your employee just follow up like every other individual. Whoever, there are some contracts. ICLA and probably also CCLA. On https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas you can f

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-18 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
I don't know exactly what the policy is, but here is my understanding. Contributions come from individual user accounts on JIRA. Individuals are affiliated with companies. One way, I can think of, to have contributions from a company could be to use Github Pull Requests from the company's forked r

Contribute as a company

2017-04-18 Thread William Li
Hi - I'm new and my company is interested to have developers to contribute to a couple of apache open source projects. Could any one please tell me how to register contributors under a specific company name? I searched through the general information blogs but couldn't find anything. Thanks,