Ceki, the incubator was created because some well-meaning people at Apache were making themselves busy helping a thousand projects bloom without noticing that some were weeds. It only requires one bad project to destroy most of what the foundation has accomplished.
The incubator weeds out the single-developer fiefdoms because we know they are at high risk, regardless of the current intentions of the developers. Apache was founded to support *collaborative* development of open source software. There is nothing wrong with requiring a community exist before something becomes an Apache project, even if it is a chicken-and-egg problem for the incubator. Other projects can and should be hosted elsewhere.
Of course the incubation process is coercive -- all process is. The question to ask is whether our process achieves our goals, not whether our process is representative of the lowest common denominator of project success.
Cheers,
Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Chief Scientist, Day Software <http://www.day.com/>
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