Benson Margulies wrote on Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 15:33:25 -0400: > Could the incubator, or a clone of the incubator, serve as a permanent > home for small projects? Essentially, this amounts to removing all the > 'incubator' disclaimer and branding requirements for these projects, > and retaining the volunteer supervision of the sort of people who are > willing to be mentors (e.g. Foundation members and others voted by the > iPMC). This would put additional eyes in the supervision process, and > still allow growth. >
Thinking out load: perhaps just promote the project into a TLP, while having a few IPMC members volunteer to become PMC members of the new TLP and provide oversight? > In the world of github, no one needs to be an ASF project to get > source control hosting. The problem of 'brand vampires' is solved by > requiring these projects to be 'small but diverse.' The project *and > the users* get the advantage of operating in the Foundation's legal > umbrella, and those users are what, to me, makes this consistent with > the mission. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
