Fw: [IMPORTANT] Reserve your project names on Apache-Extras.org

[Mark Struberg <st...@yahoo.de>]

any1 reserved 'bval' already?

LieGrue,
strub

--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Luciano Resende <lr...@apache.org> wrote:

> From: Luciano Resende <lr...@apache.org>
> Subject: [IMPORTANT] Reserve your project names on Apache-Extras.org
> To: private@community.apache.org
> Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 8:29 PM
> PMC Members
> 
> **** Important ****
> Please do not discuss this email on your public mailing
> lists for the
> time being. We will let you know when we are able to go
> public.
> 
> Please direct any requests for clarification to private@community.apache.org
> **** Important ****
> 
> In the near future the Community Development PMC will be
> announcing a
> new service in collaboration with Google. Prior to this
> announcement
> we require all PMCs to take action to reserve project names
> as
> described below.
> 
> The apache-extras.org service will provide a Google Code
> hosting
> environment for projects related to, but not part of, The
> Apache
> Software Foundation. It will house, for example, extensions
> or
> components relating to Apache projects that cannot be
> licensed under
> the Apache License can be housed on this new service.
> Similarly,
> projects that do not wish to enter the incubator but are
> related to
> our projects can be hosted on apache-extras.org
> 
> Projects hosted at apache-extras.org will not be Apache
> projects but
> they will be related to our projects. The Community
> Development PMC
> will ensure that our guidelines are adhered to, but we will
> not impose
> any legal or management requirements upon them. The goal is
> to create
> a common location for the hosting of projects of interest
> to users and
> developers of official Apache Projects. See [1][2] for more
> details on
> the Apache Extras Guidelines and FAQ.
> 
> Before apache-extras.org goes public we need to ensure that
> we reserve
> project names for our existing projects. To this end we
> require that
> all PMCs visit our Google Code spreadsheet at [3] and
> submit as many
> project names as you would like to reserve.
> 
> Please reserve as many names as you would like. At the very
> least you
> should be reserving your project name, but you may also
> want to
> reserve other names, such as those of existing non-apache
> projects you
> might want to migrate to apache-extras.
> 
> If in doubt, reserve the name.
> 
> You can, optionally, indicate an address you would like the
> to
> redirect to should people land on the apache-extras.org
> page rather
> than your projects homepage. For example
> http://www.apache-extras.org/p/Foo can redirect to
> http://foo.apache.org
> 
> You don't need to define "Apache Foo" since we will not be
> allowing
> any projects to use names with Apache marks. however, we do
> recommend
> that you should specify "Foo" instead.
> 
> **** Incubator Mentors - Important ****
> Incubator mentors, please work with the podlings PPMC to
> collect and
> reserve appropriate project names related to each podling
> you mentor.
> 
> **** IMPORTANT ****
> The Community Development PMC take no responsibility for
> names that
> are not added to Google Doc. You must specify the names now
> to ensure
> that they are reserved, so get yourself over to [1] now.
> 
> 
> On behalf of the Community Development PMC
> 
> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/extras/guidelines.html
> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/extras/faq.html
> [3] https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDhaM25LMUxEWUtPZEFtVUUxcXU2c3c6MQ
> 
> -- 
> Luciano Resende
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
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> http://lresende.blogspot.com/
> 
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