One of the best things about the ASF is that technical governance stops at the Project Management Committee (PMC) level. There is no steering committee sitting

One of the best things about the ASF is that technical governance stops at the Project Management Committee (PMC) level. There is no steering committee sitting in judgment of your project or telling you what to do. The Board's writ extends to community oversight, but not technical oversight. The ASF believes that emphasizing community tends to produce excellent software on average. Gating projects or otherwise interfering based on somebody's arbitrary judgment of quality would be be foreign, and would in fact impede the freedom of projects to develop according to the best judgment of the individuals actually doing the work.