I don't know about Jordan's full motivations, but I can say from my perspective it really sucked that I gave him a bunch of patches in early April, they didn't get applied until May because we were waiting on a release vote for 2.0.0, which was the exact same code as what was the most current, stable version on github. Then when we decided we were ready to release the changes (prompted by a user wanting a fix in an artifact they could actually depend on), we sat there for two weeks waiting on a release vote from the mentors, who had to be prompted multiple times and I don't believe know the code or have any real understanding about whether it is fit for release.
During that two weeks the code sat, it aged a bit like wine, except when we uncorked it, it hadn't actually changed. During this whole time from April, I maintained my own fork of the project outside of apache with artifacts deployed to my own artifactory because I am not willing to slow down my development cycle. So far, my impression of the transfer to Apache is that it is now more painful to actually get changes into a state where other things can depend on them, which seems like the opposite of what you want to increase adoption of a library. All of this is aside from the general feeling that its significantly more difficult to actually interact with Apache infrastructure than GitHub, but that won't be fixed by becoming a TLP. --Eric On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jordan Zimmerman < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > I am quickly coming to the conclusion that it was a mistake to put > Curator > > into Apache. I was cautioned by many colleagues that I shouldn't do it > and > > I now understand why they were correct. I'm not interested in another 3 > > months of incubation. > > > > What is the process for failing out of incubation so that Curator can > > continue outside of Apache? > > > > ==================== > > > > > How do you see the project changing when it becomes a TLP ? Or, let me put > in another way, what issue do you have as having it as an "Incubator" > project for couple more months ? > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >
