On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > As can be seen elsewhere, I'm on a self-given mission to clean up the > history of podlings by getting them to sign off on the following > checklist item:
> "Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF > been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the > package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. " :-) > I view this as the first item that a podling should be dealing with, > along with setting up the committers and getting that first codebase > in. By comparison, a website is a nice to have and community is just > icing. In principle, right. In practice, the legal sign-off is often quite slow in arriving and people like to make a start. (Perhaps might be useful to ask podlings for brief weekly updates until signoff arrives to help with tracking...) > Proposal time. > > In parallel to cleaning up history, I'd like to stop the rot going > forward. I'd like to propose that each new podling has 3 months (or > another calendar length if that feels too short/too long) to get the > checklist item signed off. I'm partial to 3 months as we would make > them report monthly until they have the item signed off, perhaps with > 6 months as a 'do we retire the podling?' checkpoint. > > Thoughts? Sounds good. If we make it 3 months then best to start the clock after the holiday season is over... Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
