Another point that needs discussion and more clarification is related to who should be counted towards diversity of a project. From [1], it states that a podling need at least 3 legally independent committers, but from recent comments on the QPid graduation thread [2], it seems that only PMC members are being considered.
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40incubator.apache.org/msg17111.html On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is an important topic for future incubator project groups > to have clarified. > > > > "The project is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are > at > > least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or > > entity that is vital to the success of the project)" > > Perhaps the word "legally" needs to be removed since from the Qpid > discussion it would appear that several people do not think a strict > legal interpretation should apply? > > However, given that the intent (as I understand it) is to avoid the > case where a project dies because one entity withdraws funding, > perhaps some definition along the lines of "for people who are paid to > contribute to the project, no single entity remunerates more than 50% > of the committers"? > > Robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany Committer http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
