On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Marnie McCormack < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Some of you with long memories may recall previous threads about project > diversity. > > At the end of one such debate, I put forward some ideas about what items > might benefit from some good practice guidelines (see below). > > My special interest is Qpid, as I'll happy submit, and the discussion > previously raged about diversity measures for graduation. There was much > debate, and support for subjective assessment. All good stuff, but I'd like > to capture the kinds of best practices measures people used in that debate. > > I'd like to pull some documentation together to flesh this out. *Would > anyone care to work with me on this, and then I'll bring it back here for > review/discussion/contribution ?* I was hoping for the gnarly wisdom of an > old-timer :-) > > What do you think ? *I* think that quite a lot of us don't want any more rules and guidelines, and are quite happy to have a subjective view on whether a podling is ready to graduate. The driving force, IMHO, should be that the Incubator PMC doesn't *want* podlings to hang around for long, and basically should push them into a graduatable state. >From the podling's perspective, an important part is to have and keep active Mentors. If they are AWOL (which happens to all of us at times) yell and we will try to find new ones. If you can find other ASF committers and Members interested to participate in your mailing list discussions, then that would be an enormous help in my subjective view of readiness, as their word would weigh in heavily. As for more documentation; I am -0 on that, but I guess Craig and Martijn will probably jump at the opportunity ;o) Documents are hard to write and even harder to keep up-to-date. Cheers Niclas
