This proposal will now be reviewed and voted on by the Apache Incubator Project Management Committee (PMC) over the next few days. We’re at the first step, with the proposal submission, which Oracle made earlier today. There is a multi-step process for initiating, reviewing and approving a new project. At Apache, you can’t just walk in off the street, drop some code and call yourself an Apache project. So what are the next steps? As I understand it (and I’m not an Apache process expert), it is not accurate to say that “Apache OpenOffice” really exists yet. I am planning on getting directly involved with the engineering effort of this project. I look forward to coming back to Apache and participating in this continuation of OpenOffice. It was a great experience then, and when the opportunity came to add my name to the OpenOffice incubation proposal I did not hesitate.
I was a committer in the Apache Xalan project many years ago (1999-2000). I’ve experienced much of this first-hand. The Apache Software Foundation deserves a lot of credit for pushing to do more to tackle software patents in a license, and implementing an effective strategy in the Apache License.Īs you can tell, when it comes to Apache I’m a fan. You can tell it’s important by the way that other free software licenses work to cooperate with it: the drafting processes for GPLv3 and the Mozilla Public License 2.0 named compatibility with the Apache License 2.0 as a goal from day one. It’s a well-established, mature license that users, developers, and distributors alike are all comfortable with. The Apache License 2.0 is the best non-copyleft license that does what a copyright license can to mitigate threats from software patents. I’d point out in particular that the Apache 2.0 open source license was recently blessed by the Free Software Foundation: These diverse projects are run according to meritocratic development process, a tried and tested governance model, strong shared technical infrastructure, a pragmatic, commercially-friendly open source license and a set of social conventions known as the “Apache Way”. I’m hoping that soon, as OpenOffice transitions to Apache, they will be able to claim 6 of the top 10! All said Apache is custodian of nearly 170 open source projects, including 5 of the top 10 open source downloads. And if you don’t know about Apache Hadoop yet, then please do your résumé a favor and study up on it. If you work with XML you know about Apache Xerces, Xalan, FOP and Batik. If you are a developer you know about Ant, Maven and Subversion. If you are a web developer or server admin, then you of course know about the eponymous Apache http server and Tomcat. I recommend also the insights of my colleagues Ed Brill and Bob Sutor.įirst, we should all be excited to see OpenOffice move to a foundation with the stature and track-record of Apache. I’d like to offer you my own thoughts on this new opportunity and what it means.
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