On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 23:18, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > In any case, this does not answer the question as to how the lack of a > > top level project for Metro would damage a commercial user. > > IMHO, > 1. Metro doesn't belong any more in Avalon than Cocoon belongs in Tomcat. > 2. The described 'worst-case' scenario, makes me not inclined to take Merlin > away from the ASF. > > from that follows a set of options, > a. A TLP. > b. The Incubator. > c. Another project/federation. > > a. is what we have opted for as the most preferred scenario from our > perspective. > b. is in the group considered a "death sentence". Be that an overstatement, > some users are indicating it to be a signal of the negative kind. > c. we are unable to see that the technology fits naturally within any other > project, but I am all ears if there is an opinion towards this. >
The incubator should not be considered a "death sentence". It is only such for projects which will die anyway. The death of an incubated project is less negative for PR, etc. than the death of a TLP. The incubator defines a process for a new project to get approval to become a TLP. If you believe Metro will be a successful project, moving it quickly through the incubator should not be difficult. -- Dave Brondsema : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming http://csx.calvin.edu : student org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
