Talk:The Apache Software Foundation

message: Came here looking for info on Muse.  Let's keep the project list current yah?  Mathiastck (talk) 18:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muse 

message: The link for "Santuario: XML Security in Java and C++" takes you to an article for a town in Antioquia  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.49.51 (talk) 09:31, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, by changing it to a red link to Apache Santuario. 192.234.16.2 (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Link 

message: Bcwilmot (talk) 08:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah. Already done: Category:Free_and_open-source_software_organizations Gstein (talk) 08:23, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other similar organizations 

message: As a class assignment I was asked to review and try to improve this article. I did some research on the following sentence in the History section flagged for not having a citation:
The name 'Apache' was chosen from respect for the Native American Apache Nation, well known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. It also makes a pun on "a patchy web server"—a server made from a series of patches—but this was not its origin. The group of developers who released this new software soon started to call themselves the "Apache Group".[citation needed]
I found out that the citation to this sentence is already included in the article:
12."How the ASF works". Apache Software Foundation. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
--Avardaneg (talk) 21:00, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for improvement 

message: The details around the origin of the 'Apache' name don't seem quite right.  The article states that 'a patchy server' was just a pun, but the basis was respect for the Native American Apache Nation.  However, I found an Apache FAQ on web.archive.org that seems to indicate that 'a patchy server' actually was the basis for the name.  The article in question is:  http://web.archive.org/web/19970106233141/http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.207.78.4 (talk) 21:40, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah the "respect for apache nation" thing isn't quite true. Apache was used as a pun on the fact that the web server was based on the old NCSA web server with a metric tonne of patches to get it production stable. It was "A PATCHey server". I won't wade into any discussions on if its an appropriate name. I think thats a matter for folks from the Apache nation to decide, not busybody white liberals like myself, and certainly outside the remit of wikipedia. But the chosen out of respect thing is kind of nonsense, and I think everyone knows that. It was a pun from a time before people where really that knowledgable about how first nation folks think about such matters. Thats not to say it was a *malicious* choice, the 1990s where a more naive time. But still, lets be honest about it. Duckmonster (talk) 04:09, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

text: With native americans speaking up against the use of the name Apache (see: https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/ ) and an on going petition  I think one could add a section desribing the conflict and critical reception of the name. Cy23 (talk) 10:12, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for improvement - Apache name 

message: The following are some of the improvements to be made to the article
# The introduction of the article can be improved a lot as they only mentioned less about the foundation and their terms and conditions
# The history section can be a improved a lot with more references as they mentioned only the date when ASF was formed but didn't mentioned where it was formed(origin,place).
# The projects can also be improved a lot by listing how they grant the projects and how they work on the projects with good references.
# The Financial section has to be improved as they mentioned only one financial year. They also mentioned about infrastructure, public section in financial section but didn't mention how the ASF was connected to public section and didn't clearly mentioned on what infrastructure they have invested.
# Different sub sections can be added with good references such as operations, products and services, goals,initiatives etc.
The formation of the ASF can be get from following article
Severance, C. (October 29, 2012). The apache software foundation: Brian behlendorf. Computer, 45, 10, 8-9.
Sai varma sarikonda (talk) 02:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review-Class Assignment 

message: The article was assigned me as a class assignment to suggest improvements. After studying the article i found the information in projects section and financials section is limited and needs to be extend. I can suggest some contents to be added to this article. The contents are as below,
Achievements- to list down the foundation achievements till date.
Public relation- To explain the ASF public relation and requirements.
I am providing reference to support public relation section.
Gharehyazie, M., Posnett, D., Vasilescu, B., & Filkov, V. (October 01, 2015). Developer initiation and social interactions in OSS: A case study of the Apache Software Foundation. Empirical Software Engineering : an International Journal, 20, 5, 1318-1353.
--Cranjithkumarreddy (talk) 03:11, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions   

message: While the list of software projects under the Apache Foundation is enormous and deserving of a separate article, it would be nice to mention at least some of the notable ones somewhere in this article to give readers a little context in terms of the organisation's reach. Currently, httpd seems to be the only one mentioned at all.
Possible candidates: Ant, Beam, Cassandra, CouchDB, Flex, Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, Maven, OpenOffice, Subversion, Tcl, Tomcat - I'm not sure if I'm the best judge of notability, have I missed anything obvious? (Note: this is "notable enough to be mentioned here" rather than the typical Wikipedia notability criteria - these are all already included on Wikipedia, obviously)
I'm guessing the intro text would be the best place to mention a few of these?
5.149.172.74 (talk) 10:34, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More suggestions for improvement 

message: Article title includes the definite article "The". This is unusual. Is there a good reason for it? cagliost (talk) 15:49, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. The "The" is actually part of the registered legal name of the organization. You'll see that we list is as part of the name on apache.org and in all of our publications. Rbowen2000 (talk) 19:59, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  *The* Apache Software Foundation? 

message: Everything New 67.216.247.193 (talk) 06:26, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Everything free with everything free with everything free New everything