> What's with the Apache Foundation being the literal farm where projects are sent to die? I think it's because they accept so many project, but people misunde

> What's with the Apache Foundation being the literal farm where projects are sent to die? I think it's because they accept so many project, but people misunderstand what the Apache Foundation does. Companies and researchers often seem to have the idea that they can just throw their code over the fence and Apache will have a team of developers ready to pick their stuff up. All the successful Apache projects are those where the developers just need hosting, guidance and perhaps legal assistance, but they themselves stay on as the developers. Apache shouldn't have accepted OpenOffice, but perhaps they where affair that we'd be left without an office suite.