On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > 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? >
Yup. No muss, no fuss, no new mechanisms. >> 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
