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Fabian Fagerholm
fabbe at paniq.net
Tue Aug 27 17:41:08 EST 2002
As the initiator of the original discussion, I'd like to jump in with a little comment right now before this heads off in a random direction. I've been discussing these matters with David Welton of the Apache Tcl Project (who has kindly agreed to assist me in this effort) and it seems the mod_python community is lacking some vital understanding of exactly what the Apache Software Foundation is. Please read carefully: > * Greg Stein <gstein at lyra.org> [020827 03:54]: > > To become an ASF project, the owners/committers of the code would need to > > agree to donate the codebase to the ASF and be willing to maintain it within > > our framework (along with other ASF committers and members who are also > > interested). Ideally, the community that comes with it would also follow > > some of the philosophy of the ASF in terms of being a friendly community, > > open source code, etc. The mod_python software is written by Gregory Trubetskoy and a number of contributors [0]. It already has a working infrastructure with a web site, cvs (via sourceforge), and a mailing list. ASF projects seem to have the general requirement that the copyright of the software is to be assigned to the ASF. This is not a decision that can be made by consensus on this mailing list. It is the decision of the current copyright owner(s). Gregory Trubetskoy has already expressed that he doesn't view the lack of python.apache.org to be a problem [1] and that he doesn't have time to spend on this effort [2] at the moment. In order for anything to happen, Gregory must either be interested in making mod_python an ASF project, or the mod_python community must come up with an alternative arrangement with the ASF (such as a "Sister Projects" link or whatever the ASF prefers). In the former case, I'm sure communication can proceed directly between Gregory and the ASF now that a contact has been established. I'll be happy to share all information that I have gathered so far. I invite everyone to continue this discussion with these facts in mind. I also invite anyone to endorse the Python Special Interest Group Proposal [3] that was sent to the Python Meta-SIG mailing list. Regards, Fabian Fagerholm [0] http://www.modpython.org/live/mod_python-2.7.8/CREDITS [1] http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2002-August/002364.html [2] http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2002-August/002372.html [3] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/meta-sig/2002-August/001233.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/attachments/20020827/69694b4b/attachment-0003.bin
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