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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:01:34 +0100
From: "robert burrell donkin" <robertburrelldonkin@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org, geir@pobox.com
Subject: Re: Forrest? Trees?
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On 10/20/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty resigned to the fact that we're not going to be able to
> present a resolution to the board this month for Harmony.  I do keep a
> flicker of hope, mainly because I'm an eternal optimist.
>
> I do think it's a shame, because I believe the core values sought and
> taught in the incubation process are community and IP provenance, and I
> think Harmony has that in ample quantity.  I think that those are the
> core strengths of any Apache project, the necessary toolset needed by a
> community.
>
> Sure, there are minor nits in a few missing license headers in some
> scripts or CSS files or whatever, and it's good to point them out
> because these details are very important, but I think we're missing the
> bigger picture here.   These kinds of things don't reflect any defects
> in the community IMO - they're buried in the noise.   It's just an
> oversight.

yep

i think that fixing up the technical side of the release process
should be ok once the time comes (now that the community is aware). i
also think that the community is strong enough to survive the social
side.

- robert

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