Minor: Clarify what "independence" means in governance #10285
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@andygrove does this match your understanding of independence? |
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| commercial interests]. That means that the DataFusion project manages code for | ||
| the benefit of all users, and not just for some company or vendor. In | ||
| particular, DataFusion only recognizes individuals as committers never | ||
| companies.[^1] |
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A lot of contributors/committers are working with companies/vendors and this statement might be controversial?
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Maybe this would be better phrased as "not just for a single company or vendor" 🤔
I think it would also be ok to close this PR and simple leave the link to https://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html#apache-projects-are-managed-independently rather than trying to summarize the nuance here
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We can revisit this wording if anyone is confused |
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Which issue does this PR close?
Part of #9691
Rationale for this change
I struggled to explain what "independent governance" meant in #10238 but ran into a great explanation here https://medium.com/@shanecurcuru/how-apache-really-works-995a091a72d3
What changes are included in this PR?
Add an explanation of what indpendent governance means
Are these changes tested?
Are there any user-facing changes?