The Apache Software Foundation Launches "Apache Extras" to Accelerate Innovation

["Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo" <th...@arsmachina.com.br>]

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This is a tip for everyone creating open source projects in Tapestry.

Google-hosted site provides a “home-away-from-home” for code associated  
with Apache projects

Forest Hill, MD – 14 December 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)  
today announced apache-extras.org, the Google-hosted site for code  
associated with Apache projects that are not part of the Foundation's more  
than eighty Top-level Projects and dozens of initiatives in the Apache  
Incubator and Labs.

"The Apache Software Foundation has a long history of software innovation  
through collaboration; the larger the pool of potential contributors the  
more innovation we see," said Ross Gardler, ASF Vice President of  
Community Development. "Apache Extras provides a home for Apache related  
software which is not formally a part of the ASF itself. Having these  
projects on a single hosting platform will help to further accelerate  
innovation involving Apache software."

Among the ASF's strengths are its well-established requirements relating  
to intellectual property management, license use, and community  
management. Apache-extras.org provides a home for projects that are unable  
to, or do not wish to, conform to those rules yet still want to signal  
their relationship to official Apache projects.

As projects on the new Google-hosted service will not be managed by The  
Apache Software Foundation, participants are allowed to use whatever  
license and project management process they desire. Apache-extras.org will  
provide a level of visibility for these projects that is unavailable on  
other code-hosting forges.

Existing Google Code projects related to Apache products can be easily  
migrated to the new apache-extras.org site, whilst those involved with new  
Apache-related projects can start quickly by filling out a simple form.  
The ASF Community Development team will work directly with Apache Extras  
to ensure innovation around Apache projects is accelerated.

Technical queries regarding the ASF's relationship with apache-extras.org  
can be directed to the ASF Community Development team at  
dev@community.apache.org. For information on migrating or setting up new  
projects, visit http://www.apache-extras.org

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one  
hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server —  
the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's  
meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 300 individual  
Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely  
available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users  
worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the  
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing  
lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official  
user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual  
donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology,  
Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource/VMware,  
and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/.

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Contact:

Sally Khudairi
The Apache Software Foundation
press@apache.org
+1 617 921 8656
Article:
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches



-- 
Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Independent Java, Apache Tapestry 5 and Hibernate consultant, developer,  
and instructor
Owner, Ars Machina Tecnologia da Informação Ltda.
http://www.arsmachina.com.br