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Posted to dev@hbase.apache.org by Misty Stanley-Jones <ms...@cloudera.com> on 2016/08/17 00:15:55 UTC

Re: Company affiliations in the team list

Filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16426 to take care of
this. Thanks, all.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Purtell <an...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't see the committer affiliation information as useful to the project
> except perhaps as indirect Powered-by marketing. That's actually had if
> comically out of date. It's certainly not useful or operative for project
> governance.
>
> > On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Enis Söztutar <en...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > It is on each individual committer to keep that up to date. But as people
> > move on, and stop being active more, it is easily forgotten. I am fine
> with
> > removing the affiliates since the usability is questionable.
> >
> > Enis
> >
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Sean Busbey <bu...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Misty Stanley-Jones
> >> <ms...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As a matter of policy, is it worth discussing the policy of listing
> >>> individual company affiliations in this context, since they often go
> out
> >> of
> >>> date? I think I understand (politically) why we list them, but it does
> >> seem
> >>> like a weak point from a maintenance and accuracy point of view.
> >>
> >> The impression I get from the current ASF Board is that they'd love it
> >> if we didn't list them at all. I don't have a strong personal
> >> attachment to publicly declaring the sponsor of my non-ASF-hat; I'm
> >> sure folks can find me on LinkedIn.
> >>
>