Hi, Here's an attempt to summarize our recent discussions, and suggest some actions. Comments are welcome, of course.
1) We need better tools for Incubator PMC members to measure the community diversity of incubating projects, especially before graduation. Suggestion: -Require a "community diversity" paragraph in the incubating project's board reports *and* in all graduation proposals We agree that the guidelines defined at [1] are fine, the goal of this report is to have the mentor's opinion on the project's health w.r.t. these guidelines. We expect the mentors to report any imbalance that they observe in the community dynamics, either one-man shows, companies having a major impact via employees paid to work on the project, etc. 2) Disclose company affiliations in incubator proposals and graduation requests Several of us agree about asking committers and mentors to disclose their company affiliations in proposals for new incubating projects. If someone's involvement in the project is independent of their company affiliation, they are welcome to mention that in the proposal. The same should apply to graduation requests, to help Incubator PMC members in asserting the community diversity. 3) Limit the number of new non-ASF initial committers for incubating projects People who were not ASF committers but come in via a newly incubating project do not get their commit rights via the normal ASF meritocracy rules. We might want to limit the number of such commiters, to limit the number of people who get in via this "shortcut". The downside of such a limitation, as someone mentioned in discussions, is that getting new committers in this way is also an opportunity to "convert" more people to the ASF way. Let's talk about the above points, and if we agree update our policies accordingly. -Bertrand [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
