+1 Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently new podlings have most of their infrastructure (lists, web > site, svn, etc.) set up under incubator.apache.org and > repos/asf/incubator. As a consequence they need to perform an extra > infrastructure migration when they graduate. IMHO that's one infra > migration too much. > > Would it make sense for us to allow podlings to be set up at their > expected TLP locations right from the beginning? The IPMC would still > be ultimately responsible for overseeing all these locations and we'd > still expect the standard incubator disclaimers to be in place (we > might even ask for extra ones in list footers, etc. if needed). If a > podling ends up being retired or graduating into a subproject of > another TLP, then an extra migration step would still be needed but > the difference to status quo would be minimal. > > The downside of this change would be that the term "incubator" would > become less prominent in the day-to-day operations of a podling. The > upside would be reduced infra overhead, less community trouble caused > by migrations and simplified incubation documentation (no need to > distinguish between podling and TLP state in so many places). > > WDYT? If there's interest (and not many objections), we could try out > the idea with a few upcoming podlings to see how it works in practice. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
