The official regular developer and user conference of the
ASF (see the
ApacheCon Web site).
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ASF
+
ASF
The Apache Software Foundation, a non-profit organization.
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Attic
+
Attic
A special directory in a
CVS
repository in which 'deleted' files are stored and from which
they can be restored at need.
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Board
+
Board
The nine-person legal governing body of the ASF,
elected by the members. [duties?]
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Bylaws
+
Bylaws
Bylaws are a codification of the rules that some
organisation follows. Some, such as the
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Cemetery
+
Cemetery
See Graveyard.
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Chair
+
Chair
1. The Chair of the
Board
of
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such as a
project management committee.
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Codebase
+
Codebase
TBD
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Commit access
+
Commit access
Currently, ASF projects use CVS
to handle the collaborative versioning control over the code.
The ability to make direct changes to the code that exists under
@@ -89,14 +89,14 @@
patches the actual offical code.
Also see Karma.
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Committer
+
Committer
An individual who has been granted the privilege of being
able to directly commit changes to an Apache codebase
(commit access).
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+
- Commit-then-Review
+ Commit-then-Review
(Often abbreviated 'CTR' or 'C-T-R'.) A policy governing
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and see the description of the
voting process
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Community
+
Community
TBD
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+
- Consensus Approval
+ Consensus Approval
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majority approval.
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Contributor
+
Contributor
Someone who makes consistent improvements to the entities
under an
ASF
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voted
on for such access.
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CVS
+
CVS
The Concurrent Versioning System, a code management system
used extensively by the
ASF.
@@ -153,19 +153,19 @@
by many developers. Almost all of the Foundation's code
is stored in CVS repositories.
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Darwinism
+
Darwinism
See
Software Darwinism.
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Developer
+
Developer
TBD
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Director
+
Director
TBD
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Emeritus
+
Emeritus
A term used to formally designate someone as no longer active,
but still entitled to all of the rights and privileges of the
position. For example, an ASF member who hasn't attended
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may declare itself emeritus. Emeritus status indicates
interest but not activity, as opposed to having resigned.
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Evolution
+
Evolution
TBD.
Compare
revolution.
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Graveyard
+
Graveyard
A location where discontinued, abandoned, and retired
codebases
and
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posterity, reference, and potential future re-activation,
while keeping it clearly distinct from active work.
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Hackathon
+
Hackathon
Informal event at which ASF participants can get together,
network, and discuss/argue/hack/prototype according to
their interests. Hackathons are open to all
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ApacheCon
events.
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Hibernation
+
Hibernation
TBD
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Indemnification
+
Indemnification
TBD
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Karma
+
Karma
1. Sufficient access to perform an operation,
such as committing changes to a CVS module. ("Please grant
Yo Mega karma to the foo-bar CVS module.")
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and the description of the
voting process.
-
+
- Majority Approval
+ Majority Approval
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voting process.
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Member
+
Member
An individual who has been elected to membership in
the ASF by the existing members. Membership benefits
include having a legal voice in the functioning of the
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ApacheCon events,
and [...?].
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Merit
+
Merit
The concept of 'merit' is central to the Apache
philosophy and community methodology. Merit is a qualitative
and subjective term, referring essentially to attributes
@@ -280,14 +280,14 @@
merit, though, by violating the community ethics, guidelines,
or sensibilities.
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Meritocracy
+
Meritocracy
Meritocracy is one of the principles underlying the
ASF and its philosophy. As it has been put, 'the more you do
the more you are allowed to do.' As a person acquires merit,
his or her stature in the community grows, and (to a certain extent)
the weight given to his or her opinions.
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Netiquette
+
Netiquette
Netiquette is the term applied to the common rules of
good online behaviour. For the general case, it is defined in
per-list basis. They boil down
to 'be polite' and 'don't make unnecessary work for others'.
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Officer
+
Officer
An individual appointed by the ASF Board of Directors and
given specific authority over and responsibility for some
portion of the Foundation's activities. An officer may or
may not be a director of
the Foundation.
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PMC
+
PMC
Project Management Committee, the group of people
with formal oversight of a project. The chair of a
PMC is always an officer
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responsibilities implied. See
Indemnification.
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Podling
+
Podling
A codebase and its community while in the process of being
incubated. See the description of the
incubation process.
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President
+
President
Primary executive officer of the
ASF, seriving at the direction of the
Board. [duties?]
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Project
+
Project
In the Apache Software Foundation, the term 'project'
typically refers to a community focussed on one or more
codebases, overseen by
a PMC.
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+
- Review-Then-Commit
+ Review-Then-Commit
(Often referenced as 'RTC' or 'R-T-C'.) Commit policy which
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and see the description of the
voting process.
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Revolution
+
Revolution
In the Apache environment, some communities may decide
to permit (or encourage) revolutions as ways of
reconciling differences, particularly code changes which
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and compare
evolution.
-
+
-
Software Darwinism
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processes inherent in the Apache peer-review environment support
this idea.
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Subversion
+
Subversion
TBD
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SVN
+
SVN
See Subversion.
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Treasurer
+
Treasurer
The treasurer of the
ASF
is an
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director,
though the rôle is often filled by someone who is.
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User
+
User
TBD
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Veto
+
Veto
According to the Apache methodology, a change which
has been made or proposed may be made moot through the
exercise of a veto by a committer to the codebase in question.
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code changes; they do not apply to procedural issues
such as software releases.
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Vice-President
+
Vice-President
ASF
vice-presidents are
officers
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are vice-presidents given charge of the proper operation
of their projects.
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Vote
+
Vote
1. The process of making a formal decision. ('The
vote for foo will close in three days.')