It's great that people are thinking carefully about the right way to
handle this new code. But after some pondering, I'm happy for it to go
directly into a sandbox here and not through the incubator.
My reasons are:
Incubation is necessary when a brand-new project is created, in order to
be sure that a new non-apache development group learn to use
apache-style collaboration. But that's not relevant in this case; Werner
is familiar with all this and I'l confident he will make sure everything
happens in the open.
Incubation is also necessary when the code is for an existing project
but that existing project doesn't have committers that will
review/commit patches for the new code and doesn't want to grant new
unknown people commit rights immediately. But again that's not relevant
here; Werner will presumably be acting as reviewer for patches.
So all we need to be concerned about here is that the code is legally
unencumbered (a grant should do that), and that there is enough of a
community to maintain it long term (which some time in the sandbox can
test). And of course that we're all happy with the architecture etc. But
for that we need to see the code :-)
I can't see any other reasons for requiring incubation...
Definitely worth asking the incubator group their opinion too, but
hopefully they just push it back to us..
Regards, Simon
Martin Marinschek schrieb:
Yes, definitely incubator should be kept in the loop. But I feel a
Grant should be enough, if it is part of the sandbox.
regards,
Martin
On 7/7/08, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well best probably is to ask there, but I dont think there should
be too much of a problem of getting it in directly without
having to go through the incubator, due to the nature of the code being
developed 100% by me.
I am fine with that. But I just want to make sure everything is fine
and correct with the Apache guidelines. Since the scope of the
contribution is a (to my understanding) separate project. Perhaps
a software grant is pretty fine. Perhaps even that is not needed.
Don't get me wrong. I am not against this
(I was pinged offline already asking "why").
So, again I am not against it. I just want to make sure
we follow the right way.
-M
So, IMO the best is to give a heads-up on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
So see, what their feeling is about this. They deal with these type of
things more frequently than everybody of us.
Generally, I think it is a good project.
