Thanks Bob and Isabel for the feedback and answers :) Isabel, I took your suggestion and started a thread on dev@community :
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b59ac198363bd5691cf2a8ef524643e6838c6ea2b679a0ba97d12d17@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E - Carin On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:14 AM Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Am 17. Januar 2019 00:26:04 MEZ schrieb Bob Paulin <b...@bobpaulin.com>: > >> *What are the benefits of graduation for the project and our end > >users?* > >This is one of those: "It's more about the Journey than the end > >destination." Projects that complete incubation have demonstrated that > >they meet a certain bar. And while that by no means guarantee eternal > >success it does mean that you have met the ASF standard for exit which > >is not easy. It means that going forward a report will be submitted to > >the board describing how your project is doing that end users will be > >able to read. This is beyond "How many stars or downloads per month" > >type of stats that let your user community know you're not going away > >anytime soon. One of the criticisms I often hear of the ASF is that > >projects just don't die (usually around some project that they believe > >is old or should be deprecated). To me this is a feature since as > >long > >as people care about the project it can live as long as it wants. > > That's a nice summary of what the goal of having an incubator is. > Something I personally would love to know is what other projects having > gone through the process think of it's benefits and drawbacks, what really > was it that changed on their journey through the incubator and into being a > tlp. > > Carin (or anyone else really), with the 20th anniversary of the ASF coming > up - would you mind starting a thread on the topic over at dev@community > and reach out to other projects (both recently graduated and well > established and popular) and look for some answers to the question? Would > be great if others on this list could help with gathering that > information... > > Isabel > > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet. >
