When the hot air manufacturers start ragging on us, one of the usual tags that they paint is 'rules' and 'bureaucracy'. If you read general@, you will see a fairly regular occurrence that feeds this perception. Someone poses a question about NOTICE files, or IP, or release structure. If they are lucky, they get 3 disagreeing responses in short order. Why lucky? Because that gives them a clue that perhaps none of them are the right answer. If they are unlucky, they get a one answer, confidently worded. And then they put in hours of work based on that answer. Time passes. A release, or even a graduation vote arrives. Suddenly, some crusty veteran arrives on the scene to tell them that what they've done is wrong, or inadequate, or purple. This is not precisely wonderful from a PR standpoint. What can we do as a PMC to improve this? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org