>-----Original Message----- >From: Benson Margulies [mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com] >Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:51 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: JIRA and communities > >So, what message here should the incubator send a podling, or the >foundation send a TLP? I really don't mean this as a rhetorical >question at all, I'm honestly puzzled. In the case of Lucene, I've >been hanging out for months, and I feel perfectly confident that it's >a healthy community by any foundation standard. At the same time, you >all are perfectly correct: watching them means dealing with a tsunami >of trivia. I'm stumped at what suggestion, let alone demand, I'd >deliver to such a community.
IMO, we wouldn't want to force a single workflow into each community just because it appears to lower the barrier of entry. I fully understand how JIRA and ReviewBoard can pollute a mail list; however, if that is how the community wants to operate, why stop them? Since everything gets forwarded to the dev list, IMO JIRA and ReviewBoard are perfectly legitimate tools for managing workflows within communities. We can always suggest changes and simplifications, or try out new processes and workflows, but forcing a community to operate a specific way doesn't seem appropriate. One thing I have seen a few podlings do is add a users mail list that offers a lower barrier of entry and allows newcomers to gradually become more immersed in the daily operations of the project. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
