Managing Projects Independently

[Dave Fisher <wa...@apache.org>]

The ASF has a number of resources created from decades of fostering hundreds of software communities in their missions to build amazing software components. One of the committees is the Community Development PMC (ComDev)

Please review the following page: https://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html

Particularly:

Apache projects are managed independently
Apache projects must be managed independently, and PMCs must ensure that they are acting in the best interests of the project as a whole. It is similarly important that the PMC clearly show this independence within their project community. The perception that the PMC is run independently and without favoring any specific third parties over others is important to help new contributors feel comfortable both joining the community and contributing their work. A community that obviously favors one specific vendor in some exclusive way will often discourage new contributors from competing vendors, and this would be issue for the long-term health of the project.

All the best,
Dave