-0 in moving sandbox to incubator
For me sandbox and incubator have 2 different purposes.
Incubator: Bring *external* code & people into ASF, resolving license
issues and allowing new people to learn the ASF way of doing things.
Sandbox: New and experimental code from existing and *trusted* ASF
committers who want to build a new community / gather support for a new
component.
It might be an idea to promote the commons sandbox to a higher level
(jakarta or even ASF) but IMHO a sandbox is different from an incubator.
But keeping the (sandbox) code close to its final destination
(commons-proper) also has advantages.
-- Dirk
Henri Yandell wrote:
[Spawned from thoughts on the Commons Csv component proposal]
How does the following sound:
* Move the Sandbox over into the Incubator project.
* SVN commit rights remain the way they are currently.
* Jakarta Commons and Apache Incubator come up with a simpler
checklist of exit conditions than in general use in the Incubator [see
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ExitingIncubator].
* Creation of a single mailing list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such name.
* Move the Sandbox website into the Incubator space. Keep the same
Maven generation technology, except for the page on the actual
Incubator website linking to the Sandbox site.
* J-C and Apache Incubator come up with something to deal with dormant
sandbox entries.
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Some may be asking the question....why?
* Taking Sandbox components through the Incubator will help us with
legal issues we might find in a new piece of code, or in communicating
the ASF way. It'll definitely help with occasions when we get a large
blob of donated code.
* 'Firewalling' the Sandbox components from Commons will drive the
creation of a simple checklist for promotion, and improve management
of dormant components.
* New mailing list for the sandbox items might help us focus on them.
Thoughts?
Hen
[All my own silly ideas, we're not under any pressure concerning the
sandbox that I've been aware of]
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